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

Reinforcing a child for stating what s/he intends to do and then for later doing that behavior is referred to as:

If after having been reinforced for imitating a number of behaviors, an individual imitates a completely new behavior the first time that behavior is modeled, we say that____________ has occurred.

A "screening assessment" is another name for:

___________procedures are used to teach individuals that they can feel their feelings and think their thoughts even though they may be aversive, and still take constructive action to pursue one's values and life goals.

The application of behavior modification techniques to individual or group performance within an organizational setting defines the area referred to as community behavioral psychology.

Which of the following is not an aspect of social validation?

Which of the following is most likely to be a primary reinforcer?

_________________developed the principle that states: For any pair of responses, the more probable one will reinforce the less probable one.

Other people's actions may become SDs for engaging in similar actions because the response of imitating often results in reinforcement.This is one process by which imitative behavior is learned.

When food is presented to a dog, the dog salivates.We would say that the stimulus has __________the response.

A child is approached by a dog and is knocked down, which causes fear.The next time the child sees a dog, the child experiences fear, which subsides when the child runs away from the dog.The child's running away from the dog is maintained by:

Presenting physical contact to guide someone through appropriate behavior is called:

The doctrine of free will is a valid criticism of attempts to develop a technology of behavior.

Conditioned aversive stimulus is another name for response cost.

Which of the following is a conditioned reinforcer?

A procedure in which a client practices particular behaviors in a practice setting to increase the likelihood that those behaviors will occur appropriately in the real world is called:

The advantage of VR over FR in training programs is that:

Regarding the cognitive restructuring component of Beck's cognitive therapy, an increasing amount of research suggests that:

To a behavior modifier, intelligence is something that you were born with, a sort of "inherited capacity for learning."

In order to "get up the energy" to follow her usual exercise routine on a Saturday afternoon, the exercise buff places some dumbbells in the center of the den (where she usually exercises)and turns on the TV to the local fitness channel.Which category of situational inducement is the exerciser practicing?