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

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

A teacher gradually withdraws her physical guidance that was used to help a nursery school child learn to trace the letter "A." Eventually the child can trace the letter by herself.This is an example of:

Varying the acceptable responses during training or using behavioral momentum to increase low-probability responses are two strategies for programming:

If you tell someone to stop eating candies, and the person stops, that is an example of:

When you open the cupboard door to get cat food, your cats come running to the kitchen, where they are typically fed.This illustrates the effect of:

Which of the following is not a major class of antecedent stimuli that control our behavior?

When a particular behavior is likely to occur in the presence of a particular stimulus and not others, we say that stimulus generalization exists.

Stimulus generalization refers to the transfer of a particular behavior to different stimuli, whereas response generalization refers to transfer between responses in a particular setting.

A book that translated Freudian psychodynamic concepts into the language of Hull's learning theory, and that had an influence in the early days of behavior modification, was written by__________ .

A child is reinforced for saying "wa-wa," then "watah," and finally, "water." In this example_________________, has been shaped.

It would be appropriate to use a DRL schedule of reinforcement when a behavior:

An increase in responding during extinction is commonly referred to as:

In the program in which Tommy could earn extra playtime at the end of the day for having three or fewer talkouts during class, Tommy's talkouts decreased because of the direct-acting effects of reinforcement of free play at the end of the day when he didn't talk out.

You are likely to reinforce (by answering pleasantly and with interest)an acquaintance who telephones you if such calls occur at a reasonably low rate, but not if they occur at such a high rate that you feel hassled.You friend is being reinforced on a(n):

Behavior modifiers have begun to pay more attention to issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation because:

Some self-control problems occur because of the influence of immediate small reinforcers for problem behaviors as compared to delayed stronger reinforcers for desirable behaviors.

Which of the following is a basic operant research journal?

If, in a given situation, an individual emits a previously reinforced response that is not followed by the usual reinforcing consequence, then that person:

Punishment is an important antecedent control procedure.

A screening or intake assessment is another name for a baseline phase.