Question 1

Which of the following is not a component of linguistic competence?

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A)  learning a vocabulary
B)  developing a grammar
C)  language comprehension
D)  None of the above; all are components of linguistic competence.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 2

A trial begins with presentation of a discriminative stimulus. If the stimulus is a light, a food pellet reinforcer will be set up after 20 seconds and can be earned with a lever press. If the stimulus is a tone, a food pellet reinforcer will be set up after 40 seconds and can be earned with a lever press. Test trials involve recording the subject's responses over 80 non-reinforced seconds. This type of experiment is investigating an organism's ability to

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A)  form concepts.
B)  produce durations.
C)  estimate durations.
D)  chunk information.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 3

Which of the following is most closely analogous to human episodic memory?

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A)  the contents of value transfer in pigeons
B)  the contents of memory for hidden food items in scrub jays
C)  the contents of paired associate learning in chimpanzees
D)  the contents of the internal clock in pigeonsE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Human infants are said to have language

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A)  at birth.
B)  usually by 6 months.
C)  usually by 12 months.
D)  There is no one point where a child can be said to graduate to having language.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

The best evidence that great apes use grammar is

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A)  the large size of their vocabulary.
B)  that most most utterances are multiple word phrases.
C)  that two-word utterances did not occur in random order.
D)  that they could convey their desires to humans.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

Explain why tests with subsets of items from a simultaneous array are useful in assessing the mechanisms of serial pattern learning.

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Question 7

A dog is trained to fetch sodas from the refrigerator. It knows to first go the refrigerator. Once at the refrigerator, it knows to pull on the door. When the door is open, it knows to grab the can. With the can in its mouth, it knows to return to its master. This dog probably learned

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A)  serial patterns.
B)  serial representations.
C)  stimulus-response associations.
D)  paired associates.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

According to Clayton et al. what is the required content of a memory for it to be considered "episodic"?

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A)  what happened
B)  when it happened
C)  where it happened
D)  all of the aboveE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

After learning to press five keys, "A" through "E," in alphabetical order, monkeys were given tests in which subsets of two keys were presented. A comparison of the latencies to press the second key revealed that as the number of letters missing between the two test keys increased, (BD) versus (BE) for example, the latency to press the second key _____, suggesting that the monkeys were subject to the symbolic distance effect.

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A)  remained the same
B)  increased
C)  decreased
D)  increased if the first key was "A" or "B," and decreased if the first key was "C" or "D" ("E" could not be the first key) E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

A cat is trained to fetch a piece of balled paper. The cat has learned that the sound of the paper being crumpled means that the game is on. The game being on tells the cat that the paper is about to fly. Seeing the flying paper means that it is time for the hunt. Grabbing the paper lets the cat know that a treat is waiting. This cat must have learned

Accepted Answer

A)  paired associates.
B)  a serial pattern.
C)  stimulus-response associations.
D)  serial representations.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Describe two techniques for measuring an animal's ability for timing behavior.

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Question 12

Describe the peak procedure and how results obtained with the peak procedure may be explained by scalar expectancy theory.

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Question 13

In an experiment with hungry rats, food is delivered to a food cup at regular 40 s intervals. The rats' head pokes into the food cup area are suggestive of

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A)  episodic memory.
B)  duration estimation.
C)  duration production.
D)  scalar invariance.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

Perceptual concepts involve

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A)  generalization within a category.
B)  discrimination within a category.
C)  generalization between categories.
D)  All of the aboveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

Discriminating between which of the following would demonstrate abstract concept formation?

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A)  natural and artificial
B)  red and orange
C)  males and females
D)  same and differentE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 16

Monkeys were trained to respond sequentially in a simultaneous stimulus array procedure. After training, which of the following sets of test stimuli will lead to the longest latency to press the first key?

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A)  C, B
B)  A, E
C)  E, D
D)  A, DE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 17

Evidence for episodic memory in scrub jays comes from the finding that

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A)  they will always prefer worms at all time periods since the food was cached.
B)  they will always prefer worms only if they are provided fresh worms at all time periods after caching including very long delays.
C)  they will prefer peanuts at short delays, but worms at longer delays after caching.
D)  evidence for episodic memory only has been found in mammals like rats, monkeys, and humans including human infants.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 18

In order to respond correctly in tests of perceptual concept learning, a dolphin must

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A)  respond similarly to members of different categories if they share similar elements.
B)  respond differently to members of the same category if they have different elements.
C)  respond similarly to members of different categories even if they are very different.
D)  respond similarly to members of the same category even if they have different elements.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 19

In a careful study of tool use in apes and crows, the researchers found

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A)  that only the ape behavior reflected causal knowledge of the task.
B)  that only the crow behavior reflected causal knowledge of the task.
C)  that both ape and crow behavior reflected causal knowledge of the task.
D)  that neither ape nor crow behavior reflected causal knowledge of the task.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 20

Describe similarities and differences in language learning among chimpanzees and human children.

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