Exam 5: Reinforcement

Secondary reinforcers are also called _______ reinforcers.

Skinner describes some of his most important research in _______.

What is the chief problem with the two-process theory of avoidance?

Negative reinforcement increases the strength of a behavior.

The area of the brain that seems to be associated with reinforcement is called the reward _______.

Operant learning may also be referred to as _______.

Thorndike made important contributions to all of the following fields except _____.

Donald Zimmerman found that a buzzer became a positive reinforcer after it was repeatedly paired with ______.

Schlinger and Blakely found that the reinforcing power of a delayed reinforcer could be increased by ________.

Sylvia believes that the reinforcement properties of an event depend on the extent to which it provides access to high probability behavior. Sylvia is most likely an advocate of _______ theory.

The more you increase the size of a reinforcer, the less benefit you get from the increase.

The law of effect says that _______.

Your text says that the law of effect implies that our environment is constantly "talking" to us. What does this mean?

An action that improves the effectiveness of a reinforcer is called a ______.

Clark Hull's name is associated with the _______ theory of reinforcement.

Clark Hull's explanation of reinforcement assumes that reinforcers _____.

________ gave Skinner's experimental chamber the name, "Skinner box."

Operant learning is often described as trial-and-error learning, but Thorndike argued that behavior was selected by ______.

 The one thing that all reinforcers have in common is that they _______.

In operant learning, the word contingency usually refers to the degree of correlation between a behavior and a consequence.