Exam 10: Aversive Control: Avoidance and Punishment

Which theory assumes that the selection among possible defensive avoidance responses is greatly influenced by different levels of perceived danger?

Which theory can best account for the finding that certain responses are more easily conditioned in avoidance training procedures?

What are species specific defense reactions and why is it important to consider them in avoidance and punishment situations?

A guinea pig can prevent mild footshock by turning a running wheel during a brief tone CS.Early in training,the guinea pig receives several shocks because it fails to spin the wheel in time.However,over several trials the guinea pig successfully learns to prevent the shock.These later successful trials are most correctly referred to as

One group (Classical Conditioning) of guinea pigs was placed in a running wheel,a tone CS was presented,and 2 seconds later a brief shock was administered.Another group (Avoidance) also was placed in a running wheel,a tone CS was presented,and a brief shock was administered only if the subjects did not move the wheel during the CS presentation.After several trials,what do you suspect was the response to the CS?

The structure that organizes defensive behaviors is

In a discriminated avoidance procedure,the CS is

In a time out procedure,behavior modification is achieved by

How is the nature of an animal's avoidance response determined according to the species-specific defense reaction hypothesis?

Which theory views the avoidance of shock as critical to the reinforcement of avoidance behavior?

The problem with using punishment outside the laboratory to modify behavior is that

Lesioning of the hippocampus during fear conditioning has

According to the two-process theory of avoidance,the _____ becomes conditioned to elicit fear in free-operant avoidance procedures.

Suppose you want an organism to learn to make avoidance responses in a free-operant avoidance procedure.To aid in training,you should provide

Criminal Bob just spent 5 months in jail for robbing a store.Criminal Sally spent 1 week in jail for the same crime.The next time they were caught,each was sentenced to 3 months in jail.This second sentence is most likely to suppress the later criminal behavior of

The second component of the two-process theory of avoidance is

Compare and contrast discriminated and free-operant avoidance procedures.

Which of the following is not true about avoidance behavior?

The two-process theory predicts that with extensive avoidance training,a subject's performance of the avoidance response should

Twenty dogs are initially presented with numerous CS-tone/US-footshock pairings.These dogs are then placed in a shuttle box,and movement from one side of the shuttle to the other terminates periodic presentations of the CS tone.No shocks are delivered in the shuttle box.This is an example of