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

Martin and Pear believe that, except for being more difficult to "get at," private behavior is the same as public behavior, i.e., the principles and procedures applicable to private behavior are fundamentally the same as those that apply to public behavior.

Causes of relapse in situations include:

Assume that you are a professional behavior modifier.Under which of the following conditions would you treat a behavior problem that had been referred to you?

A parent tells his teenage daughter that she can earn points for mowing the lawn, and when a certain number of points have been earned, she can exchange them for use of the family car.The description of the points program is a(n):

A child learns that a tiny Chihuahua and a large German Shepherd are both dogs, because they share some common features, even though they are very different in many respects.This represents:

If a behavior is maintained in the natural environment because the subject has been explicitly taught how to obtain reinforcement from individuals (after emitting the target behavior), we say that _____________has occurred.

Limited hold in an FI/LH schedule can be exemplified by the amount of time a passenger waits at a bus stop for a bus to arrive.

It is not acceptable to include agreement on blank intervals in computing an IOR when one is interested in decreasing a behavior and having agreement that the behavior did not occur.

Suppose, on seeing the host at a party, you think to yourself, "He has a big nose." This would be an example of:

A reinforcer for which tokens can be exchanged in order to maintain their reinforcing power is called a(n):

One of the results of avoidance conditioning is that:

Which of the following is not a proposed category of situational inducement?

For many self-control problems, the immediate reinforcement for consumption of harmful substances wins out over the unnoticeable and immediate negative effects that are only cumulatively significant.

A commitment to change refers to:

In the Simek and O'Brien study, a novice golfer had to sink four consecutive putts before going to the next step.This exemplifies:

Environmental events that impinge on one's sense receptors and that can affect behavior are called stimuli.

Another name for errorless learning is shaping.

Which of the chaining methods requires the trainer to spend less time in partial assembly or disassembly to prepare the task for training?

DRL works to the disadvantage of people who are ignorant of its effects by inadvertently reinforcing behavior that is highly undesirable and harmful to others.

A possible reason for the failure of an extinction program is that the undesirable behavior is receiving reinforcement from another source.