Exam 9: Behaviorist Views of Learning

A physics teacher wants her students to work on several difficult physics problems that involve calculating velocity, acceleration, or time using the formula v = a x t.The teacher first has her students work on a few easy problems involving the formula.She then presents the more difficult problems; when she does so, she finds that her students are reasonably persistent in working at the problems, and most of her students eventually solve them correctly.By using the easy problems to promote persistence in her students during the more difficult ones, the teacher is, in behaviorist terminology, using the concept of:

If you wanted to encourage kindergartners to delay gratification, you would be most likely to:

If we want to apply a classical conditioning view of learning to our teaching behaviors, we should:

Good grades are reinforcing to some students, but not to others.Someone explaining this fact from a behaviorist perspective would say that good grades are most likely to be reinforcers to students who:

Tammy is scolded for submitting a messy math homework paper, so she tries to do her math problems more neatly after that.The scolding Tammy received is an example of:

Which one of the following is the major advantage of in-school suspension over out-of- school suspension as a consequence for serious and chronic misbehavior?

Applied behavior analysis can best be described as a group of techniques that can change a student's behavior by changing the student's:

Which one of the following situations illustrates extinction of a classically conditioned response?

Which one of the following is an example of reinforcing an incompatible behavior as a way of eliminating an undesirable behavior?

Three of the following are examples of instrumental conditioning.Which one is not?

Linda wears bell-bottom pants to school, and her classmates tease her about them.As soon as she gets home, Linda throws the pants in the trash.Linda's being teased is an example of:

Ivan Pavlov conducted a series of studies that led him to propose his theory of classical conditioning.In these studies Pavlov observed how a dog learned to:

Which one of the following responses is most likely to be learned through classical conditioning?

When Rochelle has an on-the-road lesson as part of her driver education class, she fails to stop at a school crossing zone, as is required by law.Her instructor has her drive around the block several times and stop each time at the crossing zone.He also insists that, once she has stopped, she must wait at least eight seconds before proceeding.The instructor's strategy illustrates the use of as a way of changing her behavior.

Imagine that you are a middle school teacher with three chronic misbehavers in one of your classes.You decide to help them improve their classroom behavior by reinforcing them for appropriate actions.If you wanted to make sure that you use reinforcers that are truly reinforcing for these students, which one of the following would you be least likely to do?

Oliver tells a tasteless joke at a party and gets a big laugh.The next day, he tells the same joke in class, thinking people will laugh.Instead, his teacher takes him aside after class and gives him a stern lecture about why he should not say such things about a particular ethnic group.In behaviorist terminology, we could say that Oliver:

Three of the following statements are true with respect to students who have special educational needs.Which statement is false?

Classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning are two types of learning described by behaviorists.A major difference between them is that:

Bill's behaviors in Ms.Kennedy's class are really distracting to other students.For example, he whispers to the boy beside him when Ms.Kennedy is giving directions on how to do an assignment.He flings paper clips at a girl across the room.He makes strange grunting noises that a few classmates find amusing.Ms.Kennedy glares at him or admonishes him whenever he behaves in a distracting way, yet his inappropriate behaviors are increasing rather than decreasing.Which one of the following interpretations best explains why Bill's behaviors are increasing?

In Mr.Medeiros's classroom, students are given play money each time they turn in an assignment; they receive additional amounts of money if the assignment is turned in on time and if it is done correctly.At the end of each week, students can use their play money to purchase special privileges free time, special privileges, etc.).Mr. Medeiros's approach can best be characterized as: