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Title: In Pepperberg's model-rival technique, how was Alex the parrot trained to name objects?
Post by: noyabusiness on Feb 26, 2018
In Pepperberg's model-rival technique, how was Alex the parrot trained to name objects?
 
  A) Through social learning and operant conditioning
  B) Through discrimination procedures
  C) Through trial-and-error learning
  D) Through shaping and chaining of responses



Question 2

Where did Alex the parrot's name come from?
 
  A) The name of the research project he was in: Avian Learning Experiment
  B) The name of the researcher who raised him
  C) The first sound that he uttered to a human
  D) The first person that he interacted with in the laboratory



Question 3

In general, research on language learning in animals has revealed.
 
  A) no evidence that they can be taught components of language.
  B) mixed evidence that they can be taught language.
  C) clear evidence that social animals can be taught language.
  D) clear evidence that only orangutans can acquire human-like language.



Question 4

The fact that Phoenix, the dolphin, understood that BALL FETCH BASKET means the opposite of BASKET FETCH BALL indicates that it acquired the _____ aspect of language.
 
  A) symbolic
  B) abstracted
  C) referential
  D) grammatical


Title: In Pepperberg's model-rival technique, how was Alex the parrot trained to name objects?
Post by: jazzyjj1998 on Feb 26, 2018
(Answer to Q. 1)  A

(Answer to Q. 2)  A

(Answer to Q. 3)  B

(Answer to Q. 4)  D