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

If a parent checks whether or not a child is watching TV by observing the child for a few seconds each hour on the hour throughout a day, that parent is using a(n)____________recording system.

The partial rule "drive slowly" identifies the:

On a(n)_____________schedule of reinforcement, responding too soon means that the time interval will recycle so that a reinforced response must occur a minimum of a specified interval of time following a preceding response.

Which of the following is an example of covert behavior?

In one type of aversion therapy with alcoholics, a drug is added to an alcoholic beverage so that sipping the beverage causes nausea.Eventually, just the sight and smell of the beverage causes nausea, which hopefully decreases excessive drinking of alcohol.In this treatment, the CS is:

___________approach is to teach the client to use internal stimuli as SDs for engaging in appropriate self-instruction, counteract negative self-statements in the presence of the stressful situation, self-instruct the steps for taking appropriate action, and make self- reinforcing statements after successful coping.

Technically speaking, a stimulus is defined as a reinforcer only by its effects on behavior.

The best way to determine if something is reinforcing is to:

A teenager who wants to go out with friends tells his parents that his homework is finished even though it is not, and the teenager is allowed to go out.This behavioral excess of lying occurs because:

Explaining a reinforcement program to a client is necessary before a reinforcer can be used to increase the frequency of a particular behavior of that client.

Hyperactivity is a label for certain behaviors.

Systematic desensitization was developed by:

In the 1950s, ____________ developed a behavioral treatment for specific phobias.

Considering the sequential steps for designing and implementing a treatment program following baseline assessment, and supposing that you have identified the target behaviors and defined the goal, which question would you not be addressing at this time?

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

That individuals interpret and react to events in terms of their perceived significance, and that maladaptive cognitions can cause emotional disorders, are two major assumptions of:

The formula for computing IOR on data collected from interval recording is:

A stimulus that elicits a response without prior learning or conditioning is called a(n):

When reinforcers are manipulated deliberately in a behavior modification program, we say that they are ____reinforcers.

A baseline phase should continue until the pattern of performance is stable or until it shows a trend in the direction opposite to that predicted for treatment.