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

If a client believes that everyone he meets turns away from him in disgust, a therapist may help him to devise a system for judging other people's facial expressions and body language so that the client can objectively determine whether or not his beliefs are indeed accurate.This is one of the techniques used in:

A client uses stimuli produced both by a stressful situation and by his own behavior in that situation as SDs for instructing himself to engage in appropriate coping behavior.This is an example of:

Consider the self-control problem of eating too many sweets.This is likely due to:

Cognitive restructuring would be classified as an exposure-based therapy.

Organizational behavior management refers to:

A list of fear-producing situations arranged from those that cause least the fear to those that cause the most fear is called a(n):

The way that you become aware of and describe your emotions is influenced by:

The method of removing prompts in which a starting stimulus that reliably evokes the response is gradually changed until the response is evoked by the final desired stimulus is known as the method of:

The form or spatial configuration of a behavior is referred to as:

With __________________, the terminal behavior is a new sequence of responses, with a "clear-cut" stimulus signalling the end of each response and the start of the next.

If the in-seat behavior of a child in a classroom is recorded in ten-second segments successively throughout a one-hour period, the recording system that is being used is called a(n____________)recording system.

As a consequence of coming home later than an agreed-upon curfew, a teenager loses the privilege of driving the family car for one week.This exemplifies:

Which of the following is not a feature of the teaching family model for treating pre- delinquent youth?

Public goals are more effective than private goals.

In behavior modification, self-control refers to some sort of force within us that makes it possible to show self-restraint.

Shaping would not be the procedure of choice for:

The characteristics of impaired communication, impaired social behavior, and repetitive self- stimulatory behaviors during the first few years after birth are shown by individuals diagnosed as:

A behavioral deficit is:

If you are considering strategies for decreasing a behavioral excess, which of the following would you not consider:

Humans often do not show decreased response rates and pauses in responding where animals typically do on certain schedules of reinforcement.