Exam 13: The Behavioral/Social Learning Approach: Theory,Application,and Assessment

Which behavior assessment procedure sometimes leads to improvements during the baseline data collection stage of treatment?

Using the Q-sort procedure,a therapist arranges a situation so that a successful experience for the client is virtually guaranteed.

Which of the following has not been shown to be a result of self-efficacy beliefs?

According to self-efficacy theory,the extent of people's beliefs that they can bring about outcomes is referred to as

Every time a boy visited his grandfather,he would pass a house with a large dog in the yard that would bark and scare the boy.Years later,the boy becomes anxious whenever he visits his grandfather,even though the dog is no longer there.The boy learned to become anxious in this situation through which process?

The behavioral approach to personality postulates that personality is

Which of the following statements is not correct?

Watson paired a loud noise with the appearance of a white rat to create a fear of the animal in a boy known as Little Albert.Watson performed this experiment to demonstrate that

According to Bandura,people are most likely to change their behavior when they believe

From Bandura's research on observational learning in children we can conclude that whether a child performs an aggressive act depends on

After a new stimulus-response association is classically conditioned,it must be paired with the old stimulus occasionally or reinforced to avoid

A behavior modification therapist wants his client to record for a week how often and under what circumstances the client bites his fingernails.The therapist is using which assessment procedure?

Critics of behaviorism point out that

Bandura's concept of reciprocal determinism is different from Skinner's radical behaviorism in that radical behaviorism

With respect to the locus of control continuum,Sally has an external orientation. Which of the following statements would she least likely make?

Researchers sometimes use second-order conditioning.This means that they

A woman complains to her therapist that lately she hasn't "felt like herself." The therapist plans to use a behavior modification treatment by altering the rewards and punishments in the woman's environment.What is likely to be the first step the therapist takes in setting up this treatment?

A basic tenet of Rotter's social learning theory is that the strength of expectancy is determined by the value we place on reinforcement.

A behavior modification therapist wants to teach a client to relax.The therapist wants to teach the client to pay attention to when his muscles are tense.However,the client complains that he cannot tell when his muscles are tense.What type of treatment will the therapist probably try?

A man launches a campaign to change a law he does not like.According to Rotter,whether the man persists at this campaign depends on if