Exam 31: Shaping and Schedules of Reinforcement: A Comprehensive Guide

The process of breaking a task down into smaller steps or component responses to facilitate training refers to:

The nature of a behavior problem and the frequency with which it occurs will influence the assessment procedure selected by the behavior modifier.

The feeling component of our emotions is controlled by respondent conditioning.

Events that temporarily alter the effectiveness of consequences as reinforcers or punishers are called:

At the end of a poker game, poker chips that you have obtained can be exchanged for money.In this case, money can best be described as a(n):

If a conditioned stimulus (CS)is presented without further pairings with the unconditioned stimulus, the CS will gradually lose its capacity to elicit the conditioned response.This is the definition of:

A conditioned response may be eliminated more effectively if a new response is conditioned to the conditioned stimulus at the same time that the former conditioned response is being extinguished.

A stimulus that was not originally punishing, but that acquired punishing power through association with other punishers is the definition of:

When designing a behavior modification program, one of the first concerns of the behavior modifier should be to assess whether or not it is possible to capitalize on existing stimulus control.

A dollar bill may not be reinforcing for a young child who has had no experience with money.However, after the dollar bill is paired with a variety of back-up reinforcers while making various purchases in the store, the dollar bill becomes a powerful reinforcer.This is an example of the development of a:

Skinner published the text Principles of Psychology (1950).

Across several golf practices, a golfer is reinforced for hitting five shots, then seven shots, then ten shots, and then fifteen shots.This is an example of ___________shaping.

The procedure of covert sensitization was developed by:

In a landmark experiment in 1920, Mary Cover Jones demonstrated Pavlovian conditioning of a fear response in an 11 month-old infant.

A guideline for identifying behaviors which no longer require token reinforcement is to identify those behaviors that have received continuous reinforcement under the token economy.

When an aversive stimulus is presented after a response and the response decreases in frequency, this procedure is called:

Which of the following is an example of an outcome of behavior?

After many trials, the stimulus that occurs immediately following each step in a chain eventually becomes both a conditioned reinforcer for the response that produced that stimulus and an SD for the following response.

For what general type of problem is systematic desensitization used?

The principle of__________ states that if a response that is incompatible with fear or anxiety can be made to occur to a stimulus that normally produces fear or anxiety, then that stimulus will cease to elicit the fear reaction.