Exam 10: Conditioned Reinforcement

Victims sometimes become emotionally attached to people who mistreat them. How could this happen?

Token economies are most effective at maintaining behavior after the treatment program ends when they:

In clicker training:

The effectiveness of a _____ depends on the frequency of unconditioned reinforcement correlated with it.

If a rat presses the same lever in each component of a chain of reinforcement then the chain is _____.

Which of the following would reduce the effectiveness of a conditioned reinforcer?

The _____ asserts that stimuli closer in time to positive reinforcement, or further in time from an aversive event, are more effective conditioned reinforcers.

______ involves two or more simple schedules, presented sequentially and signaled by an arbitrary stimulus.

Research shows that people view their bank balances more at the beginning of the month than at the end of the month. This finding is consistent with the research conducted by:

A golf instructor who teaches golf by beginning with a short putt, then a chip shot, and finally a tee shot to begin the hole, is using:

Backward chaining involves:

In terms of good news and bad news, research suggests that:

Schaefer and Martin (1966) demonstrated the effectiveness of ___________ in increasing the activity of psychiatric patients with schizophrenia.

On a chain schedule of reinforcement, the longer the delay between the S^D and the unconditioned reinforcement:

Systems of token reinforcement in humans have been used to improve the behavior of:

The number of tokens needed in order to "purchase" a reinforcer in a token economy is part of the:

Which of the following characteristics is responsible for money being labeled as a generalized reinforcer:

According to Skinner (1953), affection is best identified as:

The S-S account of conditioned reinforcement states that:

If you train a rat to receive a food pellet every time you play a particular song, the food pellet is ______ and the tune is ______.