Exam 6: Schedules of Reinforcement

One everyday example of a VR schedule is the lottery.

The rate at which a response occurs, once the subject begins performing it, is called the .

Bill spends his summer in the city panhandling.Every day he takes a position on a busy corner and accosts passersby saying, "Can you spare some change?" Most people ignore him, but every now and then someone gives him money.Bill's reinforcement schedule is best described as a .

George's Pigeons George trains a pigeon to peck a disk by reinforcing each disk peck.Once the response is learned, George begins to cut back on the reinforcers.At first he reinforces every other response, then every third Response, every fifth response, every tenth response, and so on. Refer to George's Pigeons.Things are going pretty well for George until he jumps from reinforcing every tenth response to reinforcing every 50th response.At this point, the pigeon responds erratically and nearly stops responding entirely.George's pigeon is suffering from .

John spent his summer picking cantaloupes for a farmer.The farmer paid John a certain amount for every basket of cantaloupes picked.John worked on a .

One difference between FT and FI schedules is that in FT schedules, reinforcement is not contingent on a behavior.

CRF is synonymous with .

The thinner of two schedules, VR 5 and VR 10, is VR 10.

Your text reports the case of a man who apparently made hundreds of harassing phone calls.The man's behavior was most likley on a/an .

The explanation of the PRE that puts greatest emphasis on internal cues is the hypothesis.

It is sometimes possible to stretch the ratio so far that an animal receiving food reinforcement will expend more energy than he receives from the reinforcers.

Of the following, the schedule that most closely resembles noncontingent reinforcement is .

Pigeon Study A pigeon is confronted with two disks, one green, the other red.The bird receives food on a VI 20" Schedule when it pecks the green disk, and on a VI 10" schedule when it pecks the red one. Refer to Pigeon Study.The principle that allows you to predict the behavior of the pigeon is called the )

In VI schedules, the reinforcer occurs periodically regardless of what the organism does.

Harry spent his summer in the city panhandling.Every day he would sit on the sidewalk, put a cardboard sign in front of him that said, "Please help," and place his hat on the sidewalk upside down.Then he would wait.Every now and then someone would put money into his hat.Harry's reinforcement schedule is best described as a .

The rule describing the delivery of reinforcement is called a/an of reinforcement.

Pigeon Study A pigeon is confronted with two disks, one green, the other red.The bird receives food on a VI 20" Schedule when it pecks the green disk, and on a VI 10" schedule when it pecks the red one. Refer to Pigeon Study.You predict that the bird will peck .

In a tandem schedule, behavior is performed during a series of schedules, but food reinforcement comes only at the end of the last schedule.What reinforces behavior during the earlier schedules when food is not provided?

Of the following explanations, the one that is most satisfactory from the standpoint of science is .

In a schedule, reinforcement is contingent on the continuous performance of a behavior for some period of time.