Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

A parent is trying to increase the time his child spends studying by giving the child a baseball card for each hour he studies.The child does not increase or decrease his study time.This story illustrates the difference between

When your professor gives you back a graded test, seeing your errors and corrected answers provides you with __________.

The idea that a high frequency response can be used to reinforce a low frequency response was proposed by

After a response has been extinguished, it will often reappear after a short time has passed.This is called

Some computer-assisted (CAI)programs make use of instructional games involving stories, competition with a partner, sound effects, and game-like graphics that increase interest and motivation.These CAI programs are known as

Sally, who has a habit of taking toys from her sister, should be reprimanded for it but should also be rewarded for displaying the opposite behavior of sharing toys with her sister or other children, which is referred to as __________.

Presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus will result in

Negative reinforcement occurs when a response

Which of the following are tangible secondary reinforcers, such as money, gold stars, and poker chips that can be exchanged for food, lodgings, and other necessities?

When three-year-old Ashley hears a truck pull into the driveway, it means that Daddy is home.The sound of the truck would be a(n)

Regarding associative learning, which of the following discovered what is now called operant conditioning?

Ideally, children should want to behave well because

After pairing the conditioned stimulus (CS)and unconditioned stimulus (US)in a series of conditioning trials, the organism learns to respond to the CS alone.This learned behavior is then termed the

Self-recording is important in managing your own behavior because

In a behavior modification program at the local school, children were given "good behavior" slips that could be exchanged for candy or toys at the end of the week.Which of the following would be a FALSE statement regarding this type of reinforcement?

In a classic experiment, two groups of rats explored a maze with the first group being rewarded with food at the end of the maze, while the second group wandered the maze but were unrewarded and showed no signs of learning.But later, when the "uneducated" rats were given food, they ran the maze as quickly as the rewarded group.The unrewarded animals had nevertheless learned their way around the maze, which demonstrated a type of learning referred to as

Tony is deathly afraid of heights.His therapist uses a virtual reality program that allows Tony to feel like he is experiencing gradually increasing levels of height.This therapy technique is a type of

When three-year-old Ashley hears her father at the door, she runs to the front door to greet him and receives a hug from her father.This hug is considered a consequence that has what effect on Ashley's response of running to the door?

Which of the following theorists believed that anything that can be learned from direct experience can be learned through observation?

You are being paid for each 100 square feet of drywall you install.You are being paid on the type of partial reinforcement schedule known as __________.