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What evidence suggests that food caching birds know where food is stored, what food is stored, and when they stored the food?

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Evidence of generalization to novel exemplars is used to support


A) a paired associate learning interpretation.
B) a stimulus-response learning interpretation.
C) a concept-learning interpretation.
D) a serial pattern learning interpretation.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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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 procedure is called


A) a duration estimation task.
B) a peak procedure.
C) an interval training task.
D) a model-rival technique.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Results from duration estimation tasks suggest that


A) rats can base their behavior on duration estimation, but pigeons cannot.
B) pigeons can base their behavior on duration estimation, but rats cannot.
C) neither pigeons nor rats can base their behavior on duration estimation.
D) both pigeons and rats can base their behavior on duration estimation.

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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What does learning a perceptual concept involve?

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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 second key?


A) E, A
B) B, C
C) C, B
D) D, B

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

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According to the behavioral theory of timing; which is an adjunctive behavior?


A) pre-food focal search
B) post-food focal search
C) general search
D) all are adjunctive behaviors

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Evidence from drug studies, clinical disorders, and transgenic mice suggests which neurotransmitter is important for timing?


A) norepinepherine
B) dopamine
C) serotonin
D) acetylcholine

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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Describe how the behavior of food storing birds can be used to provide evidence of episodic memory.

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In Scalar Expectancy Theory, what relays the number of pulses that have occurred to working memory?


A) the pacemaker
B) the comparator
C) the accumulator
D) the switch

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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A rat is used in a modified matching-to-sample experiment. If the rat is presented with a 4-second-long sample, it must push the left lever. If the sample is 10 seconds long, the rat must depress the right lever. This type of experiment tests the rat's ability to


A) form concepts.
B) produce durations.
C) estimate durations.
D) chunk information.

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

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The common elements approach to perceptual concept learning suggests that organisms form perceptual concepts based on


A) prototypes of the perceptual category.
B) geotypes of the perceptual category.
C) shared critical features of members of the perceptual category.
D) different combinations of shared features of members of the perceptual category.

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

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Compare response chains, paired associate learning and serial representation learning. How can an investigator determine which strategy is being used by an animal in a simultaneous chain procedure?

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Applying transcranial magnetic stimulation to which brain region is most likely to disrupt performance on longer (suprasecond) timing tasks?


A) the cerebellum.
B) the amygdala.
C) the prefrontal cortex.
D) the dorsal spinal cord.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Why has determining whether nonhuman animals are capable of learning language come to be considered an unimportant question? What do modern investigations of animal language attempt to determine?

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Retrospective: Prospective as


A) scalar expectancy theory: behavior theory of timing
B) behavior theory of timing: scalar expectancy theory
C) behavior theory of timing: adjunctive behavior
D) adjunctive behavior: superstitious behavior

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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A

The circadian clock has been linked to neural activity in


A) the amygdala.
B) the parietal cortex.
C) the suprachiamatic nucleus.
D) the nucleus accumbens.

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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A simultaneous presentation of all response choices in a serial order task cannot be solved by learning


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

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Attempts to determine if nonhuman animals are capable of language have led to the conclusion that


A) only chimpanzees are capable of language.
B) many species of animals are capable of language.
C) only chimpanzees and dolphins are capable of language.
D) this is not an answerable question.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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In the model-rival technique,


A) a prototype of the lexigram is repeatedly presented to the subject.
B) a model of the lexigram is presented by the experimenter.
C) a different student competes with the subject for the experimenter's attention.
D) several different prototypes of the lexigram are presented only once in series to the subject.

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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