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

A woman experiences high levels of nervousness right before she is to speak in front of a large audience.She decides she can't go through with the speech.She later tells her husband she could not speak because she was anxious.If her husband were B.F.Skinner,how might he respond?

Many complex human behaviors cannot be learned through classical or operant conditioning but are acquired through observational learning.

Tony's mother wants him to learn to play with other children.She begins by offering him a quarter whenever he plays with other children near by,even if he plays by himself.Later she gives him a quarter only when he plays on the same playground equipment other children are playing on.Finally,she gives him a quarter only if he actually plays with the other children.Tony's mother is demonstrating how to use

Discuss the origins of social learning theory and explain how it expands upon the behavioral approach to personality. What are the basic tenets of Rotter's theory? Discuss the relationships among behavior potential,expectancy,and reinforcement value. In your discussion,explain how different personality characteristics are related to differences in locus of control and reinforcement value.

Marlene's desk becomes so messy that on occasion she cannot find an important paper she is looking for. After several incidents in which she suffered the consequences of not finding a paper she needed (such as a homework assignment),she learned to organize and straighten her desk.Marlene learned this new behavior through which operant conditioning procedure?

According to the behaviorist position,why don't classically conditioned phobias extinguish after the pairing is removed?

In Rotter's model,the behavior that is most likely to be performed in a given situation is

Which of the following is advocated by Bandura in his social-cognitive theory?

A woman suffers from stage fright.If you were to use the most effective method to change her efficacy expectation for overcoming this problem,you would probably

Which of the following treatments for problem behaviors would be an application of operant conditioning?

Which procedure might you use if you wanted to decrease the frequency of a response?

According to Bandura,behavior modification procedures

When Pavlov conditioned his dogs to salivate upon hearing a bell,the bell was the

Psychologists use shaping because of which limitation of operant conditioning?

Define operant conditioning and contrast it with classical conditioning. State the law of effect and describe the nature of the observations made by Thorndike to formulate the law. Give two examples of your own that illustrate the reinforcement strategies used in operant conditioning to increase desired behaviors.

Give your own example of shaping. State the circumstances under which shaping is particularly useful. Explain the meaning of behavior modification and discuss the basic operant conditioning procedures typically used in it.

According to Rotter,all of the following are psychological variables that must be considered to account for behavior except one. Which one?

In Rotter's model,a behavior potential is determined in part by

Which of the following is the term in the scientific community that refers to the process Pavlov used in his famous demonstrations of learning?

The self-monitoring method may have problems due to the fact that