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Question 21

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Data from a study with baboons exposed to four letter word or non-word stimuli to see if they could learn to distinguish between words and random combinations of letters suggest that

A) they could use only S-R cues to discriminate.
B) they could use only S-R and S-S cues to discriminate.
C) they could use orthographic information to discriminate.
D) they could not discriminate above chance between words and non-words.

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

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Studies of perceptual concept learning suggest that

A) only humans form true perceptual concepts.
B) only primates form true perceptual concepts.
C) only primates and dolphins form true perceptual concepts.
D) many species, including pigeons, form true perceptual concepts.

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

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In an ordered behavior task, a response to stimulus A results in the presentation of stimulus B. Responding to B results in C, and so forth. In order to correctly perform this task, a subject must learn

Which of the following is not a consideration of nonhuman language learning?

According to Scalar Expectancy Theory, which of the following is not part of the clock process?

Monkeys were trained to press five buttons, "A" through "E," in alphabetical order. When presented with the smaller subset of keys "B" and "D," they were able to press these keys in order also. This suggests the monkeys learned

According to the behavioral theory of timing, the discriminative stimuli for the required timing responses are

In an ordered behavior task, a response to stimulus A results in the presentation of stimulus B. Responding to B results in C, and so forth. This type of task is called

Which of the following is not a feature important to the behavioral theory of timing?

Describe food caching behavior and what factors experimenters have to rule out before concluding that the behavior is mediated by working memory.

Compare and contrast the scalar expectancy model of timing and the behavioral theory of timing.

Describe the internal clock. Compare the Scalar Expectancy Theory and behavioral theory of how timing might take place.

What are the components of language competence? What evidence of these components is found in nonhuman animals?

Describe instances of tool use in avian species and discuss how tool use may be acquired.

If Kanzi wanted you to carry him, the sentence he would be most likely to communicate would be

A task in which the discriminative stimulus is the length of time of an event is referred to as a _____ task.

Which theory assumes that concept learning is due to responding to certain stimulus aspects that members of a perceptual category have in common?

Compare and contrast perceptual and abstract concept learning.

In theories of timing that use oscillators, the oscillator is most like a

A scrub jay demonstrates that it knows what happened, where it happened, when it happened, and seems to have integrated these pieces into a a coherent representation. This is evidence of