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

The behavior of hitchhiking (thumbing to obtain a ride)is reinforced on:

If a behavior modifier is examining the possibility of capitalizing on antecedent control in the design of a behavior modification program, which of the following would the behavior modifier not consider using?

The inconsistent use of extinction often results in highly persistent undesirable behavior.

When the words "blue sky" are repeatedly paired with actually looking at and seeing a blue sky, the words "blue sky" come to elicit the activity of "seeing" or "imagining" a blue sky.This is an example of:

It is important to consider the setting in which extinction will be carried out in order to:

Believing, thinking, and perceiving are three things that describe:

__________developed an influential learning theory that meshed together operant and respondent conditioning into a theory that did not distinguish between the two types of conditioning.

In the 1960s and 70s, ___________ developed early intensive behavioral treatment programs for children with autism.

When the initial step of a sequence is taught first, then the first and second steps are taught and linked together, then the first three steps, and so on until the entire chain is acquired, this process describes:

A behavioral excess is:

When reinforcement that is contingent on the first response occurs within a limited period of time following another interval of time, which varies around some mean value, a(n)__________ schedule is in effect.

Which of the following is not one of the three stages of a shaping program?

Many studies have demonstrated that there are psychological problems (e.g., anxiety disorders, depression, habit disorders)for which specific behavioral procedures have been demonstrated to be about equally effective with other forms of psychotherapy.

With conditioned motivating operations:

A developmentally disabled child frequently shows a problem behavior that produces an effect on the external environment, and that appears undiminished even though there are no apparent social consequences.These are indicators that the problem behavior is maintained by:

In stimulus generalization, an individual makes a different response to two different stimuli, whereas in stimulus discrimination, an individual makes the same response to two different stimuli.

Behavior modification should always be used to maintain the status quo in social relationships.

A behavior modifier might evaluate the ease with which a problem behavior might be changed by determining:

Recognizing objects that are red and discriminating them from objects that are green is an example of:

When the goal of a program is to develop some new behavior along some physical dimension such as force, form, or duration, one should use: