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

Behavior modifiers stress the importance of defining problems in terms of specific behavioral deficits or behavioral excesses because:

When teaching a child the correct position of the knife, fork, and spoon at a place setting at a dinner table, the teacher initially draws the location of the utensils on a place mat, and then fades out the drawing over trials.The drawing on the place mat is a(n):

Which of the following is not one of the reasons for explaining a reinforcement program to the individual whose behavior is to be reinforced?

Punishment is the same as:

Extinction may be quicker after continuous reinforcement than after intermittent reinforcement.

Which of the following is not a recommended characteristic of target behaviors selected for clients?

If a stimulus (that does not elicit a particular response)is closely followed in time by a second stimulus that elicits a particular response, then the first stimulus will come to elicit the response that was elicited by the second stimulus.This is the definition of the principle of:

Adding "ed" to the ends of verbs to indicate past tense illustrates:

That behavior can be modified by its consequences is the basic tenet of:

Parents with good intentions might say to their child, "That was good, but..." and then proceed to explain how the behavior could have been even better.Although they hope to be instructional, they are probably unintentionally applying:

A new response is conditioned to the conditioned stimulus at the same time that the former conditioned response is being extinguished.This process is called:

Consumable, activity, manipulative, possessional, and social are categories of reinforcers.

Behavior modification accepts changes in a behavior as the indicator of the extent to which a problem is being helped.

The reappearance of an extinguished behavior following a rest is called:

A broad interdisciplinary field concerned with the links between health, illness, and behavior is referred to as:

Preverbal infants show quite different response patterns on certain schedules of reinforcement than do animals on those same schedules.

A broad meaning of functional analysis is finding a relationship between examples of two variables, called an independent variable and a dependent variable.

A form of aversion therapy in which an undesirable reinforcer is repeatedly paired with an aversive event is referred to as:

In studies of newborn infants, gagging occurs when the back of the mouth is touched.

An avoidance schedule in which occasional aversive events are postponed by the emission of a response and in which no warning stimulus signals the impending occurrence of an aversive event is referred to as: