Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class

question 23

Multiple Choice

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!) . Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with

• A) translation
• B) storag.
• C) retrieva.
• D) evaluation
• E) interpolation

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Definitions:

Discrimination Training

The process of reinforcing a response to a specific stimulus while not reinforcing responses to similar stimuli, thereby teaching the subject to differentiate between the stimuli.

Generalization Test Stimuli

Stimuli that are not exactly the same as the conditioned stimulus but are similar enough to elicit the conditioned response, used to test the breadth of stimulus generalization.

Behavioral Contrast

The phenomenon in which the rate of response varies according to a change in reinforcement conditions, usually in operant conditioning.

Transposition

Köhler’s idea that animals learn relationships between stimuli and that they respond to different stimuli based on the same relationship as the original training stimuli.