Exam 5: Reinforcement

One effect of the extinction procedure is an increase in the variability of behavior.

How does the Sidman avoidance procedure differ from other avoidance procedures?

Schlinger and Blakely found that the reinforcing power of a delayed reinforcer could be increased by .

The one thing that all reinforcers have in common is that they .

Thorndike complained that evidence provided a "supernormal psychology of animals."

The author of your text probably believes that most childhood tantrums are due to unintentional shaping by adults.

Using ESB as a reinforcer, Talwar and his colleagues got such effective control over the behavior of rats that journalists called the animals robo-rats.

Pearl Mary's grandmother, Pearl, is from the Old Country.Although she knows some English, she continues to Speak her native tongue.Pearl can't go anywhere without a member of the family because she can't Communicate with people about prices, directions, bus routes, etc. Mary decides to try to modify Pearl's behavior.She and the rest of the family refuse to respond to any comment or request by Pearl that they know she is capable of expressing in English.For example, if during dinner she says, "Pass the potatoes" in English, she gets potatoes; if she says it in her native language she gets ignored. Refer to Pearl.Pearl's resistance to learning English is most likely the result of .

According to Skinner, people are rewarded, but behavior is reinforced.

The first step in building a behavior chain is to do a/an .

Thorndike's 1898 dissertation describes experiments with cats, chicks, and .

The opposite of a conditioned reinforcer is a .

In one of Thorndike's puzzle boxes, a door would fall open when a cat stepped on a treadle, thus allowing the cat to reach food outside the box.Eventually the cat would step on the treadle as soon as it was put into the box.Thorndike concluded that .

demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the brain could be reinforcing.