Exam 7: Behavioral Approaches to Learning

What is the ultimate goal of social learning?

The Premack principle states that more preferred activities reinforce those that are less preferred.

A teacher blows a whistle until the students form a straight line. The whistling stops as soon as the line is formed. This is an example of which of the following?

In an interval schedule, reinforcement is a function of the time that has passed, regardless of the number of operants that have occurred.

An automatic, natural physiological behavior to a particular stimulus.

Complete the following sequence of events: Acquisition, Extinction, Rest, Presentation of CS,

The method of successive approximations involves changing students' behavior by managing the contingencies, or consequences, of that behavior.

Burrhus F. Skinner studied cats placed in puzzle boxes.

Removal punishment is the application of an aversive, or unpleasant stimulus.

The originally neutral stimulus is called the unconditioned stimulus, or US, because it is the stimulus that will come to elicit the response after the conditioning procedure takes place.