Exam 13: The Behavioralsocial 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?

Colleen is trying to decide which of two events to enter in the school track meet. She thinks she would have a better chance of winning the 100-meter race, but decides to enter the 10,000-meter race instead. According to Rotter's theory,

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 nearby, 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

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

Explain from where our expectations come for behaviors we have never performed before, according to Bandura. Define self-efficacy and efficacy expectations and give your own examples of mastery experiences and vicarious experiences.

A person can learn a behavior without ever performing it. This concept is part of which approach to personality?

Edward Thorndike observed cats learning to escape from boxes to obtain a piece of fish and derived from these observations the "law of effect." This was an early statement of

Therapy based on self-efficacy is designed to help people

A woman shows no interest in socializing with other people. How might a behaviorist explain this behavior?

Which of the following statements is not correct?

People are more likely to engage in a behavior if it is followed by a reward. According to Rotter, this is because the reward

A behavioral 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?

A tennis coach works with players to improve the accuracy of their backhand stroke with successive attempts to produce more hits on target each week of the season. The coach is using a form of conditioning known as

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

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

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

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

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

What did Watson use to explain human behavior?

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