Exam 7: Behavioural Views of Learning

Mr. Matin interviews a student about her disruptive behaviour to learn about her reasons for the behaviour. This approach is an example of doing functional behavioural assessment.

The most effective reprimands are those that are

Each time Robert fails to do his homework, five points are deducted from his total course points. The procedure being used by the teacher is

Woolfolk suggests that programs for promoting group responsibility may be particularly hard on

A first grader was able to arrange names of group members alphabetically by watching the strategy used by her teacher and imitating the teacher's actions. This example supports which of the following theories about learning?

Ms. Tolleson is using social isolation effectively when she removes Mark, who is being disruptive, for a period of 60 minutes.

Researchers agree goal-setting is most beneficial for self-management when students keep their goals private.

Contrast reinforcement and punishment and describe the various categories of each. How can we tell if something is a reinforcer or a punisher?

Positive practice involves having students give correct responses several times immediately following errors.

The schedule of reinforcement that produces the highest response rate is the ________ schedule.

The application of learning principles to change behaviour is called applied behavioural analysis or ________.

Bart uses an old cigarette lighter that has become unreliable. It usually takes from one to 10 flicks to make it work. When the lighter is out of fluid, it will not work at all. By the time that Bart figures out the problem, he has tried flicking it 15 to 20 times. This situation illustrates the principle that

Removing something aversive as soon as the desired behaviour occurs is an example of punishment.

An example of the use of positive practice is having students

Kelly is a ninth grader with above-average abilities. He earns "Bs" in all of his subjects, except for biology, which he barely manages to pass. As his biology teacher, you have tried to help him many times, but you have observed no real progress. Kelly tells you that he has difficulty doing his homework because of anxieties and basic "resistance" to the subject. He simply doesn't know how to get started and stares at the question until he gives up and puts the homework assignment away. -Design a self-management program that Kelly could adopt to improve his academic performance.

When an aversive stimulus is removed following a behaviour and the reinforcement behaviour increases, the type of consequence that occurs is ________.

Breaking complex performances into sub-skills and sub-processes is part of a systematic procedure called ________.

An antecedent is an event that follows an action.

In using the Premack Principle, it is important that the higher frequency behaviour happens first.

Mr. LeDoux is gathering information about the perpetual misbehaviour of Reid in French class. He recorded the antecedent of the behaviour in several instances and the consequences following the behaviour. He is trying to understand why Reid repeats the negative behaviour. What process is Mr. LeDoux using?