Quiz #3 Questions and Answers Flashcards
When talking about sound waves and their perception,
amplitude is to loudness as frequency is to pitch
The opponent process theory, proposed by Hering, was initially developed in the study of
color vision
When a child is put in “time out” by a parent or teacher, the adult has just applied what consequence to change his or her behavior?
negative punishment
In the study of sensory systems, accommodation refers to
changes in the shape of the lens when focusing on objects at various distances
Spontaneous recovery is a term used to describe
the return of a classically conditioned response that was previously extinguished after a period of time with no additional exposure to the CS or the UCS
Francisco receives a salary at the end of each month. His reinforcement schedule is
fixed interval
Pitch is determined by
frequency
What do the initials stand for in the term ROC curve?
receiver-operating-characteristic
Which of the following would be true of instrumental conditioning?
Reinforcement increases the frequency of the response associated with it.
A conditioned response has been learned to a specific stimulus. When similar stimuli also evoke the conditioned response, the phenomenon is called
stimulus generalization
