Exam 8: Developing Behavioral Persistence With Schedules of Reinforcement

Explain what an FR/LH schedule is, and illustrate with an example from everyday life that is not in this chapter.

Explain what a VR schedule is. Illustrate with two examples of VR schedules in everyday life (at least one of which is not in this chapter). Do your examples involve a free-operant procedure or a discrete-trials procedure? [

Give two examples of how FD might be applied in training programs.

Explain what an FR schedule is. Illustrate with two examples of FR schedules in everyday life (at least one of which is not in this chapter).

Define CRF and give an example that is not in this chapter.

What is a free-operant procedure?

Describe how a VR schedule is similar procedurally to an FR schedule. Describe how it is different procedurally.

What is ratio strain?

Explain what an FD schedule is. Illustrate with two examples of FD schedules that occur in everyday life (at least one of which is not in this chapter).

Might it be better to reinforce a child for dusting the living room furniture for a fixed period of time or for a fixed number of items dusted? Explain your answer.

Explain what a PR schedule is, and how PR has been mainly used in applied settings.

Describe four advantages of intermittent reinforcement over CRF for maintaining behavior.

What is an FI schedule?

Briefly describe how schedules of reinforcement can help us understand behavior that has frequently been attributed to inner motivational states.

Explain what a VD schedule is, and illustrate with an example of one from everyday life (that is not in this chapter).

If an individual has an option of engaging in two or more behaviors that are reinforced on different schedules by different reinforcers, what four factors in combination are likely to determine the response that the person will make?

Who wrote the classic authoritative work on schedules of reinforcement, and what is the title of that book?