Exam 6: Schedules of Reinforcement and Choice Behavior

If you wanted to ensure that your employees worked at high steady rate, on what schedule of reinforcement would you reward them? Why?

The orbitofrontal cortex

Mr.Tallboys clothing shop has a sale every 4 weeks.The sale runs from 11:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m.This restriction on when you can buy items at reduced prices is called

Describe the roles of the amygdala, striatum, and orbitofrontal cortex in choice behavior.How do they function together to lead to choices?

If a ratio requirement is increased from an FR 100 schedule to an FR 500 schedule, the subject will often pause periodically before completion of the ratio requirement.These pauses are due to

Compare and contrast ratio and interval schedules in terms of how the contingencies of reinforcement are set up and the effects they have on the instrumental response.

A pigeon responds more on key "A" than on key "B." The relative rate of responding to key "A" could be .

With regard to instrumental conditioning, the amygdala appears to

Describe how concurrent schedules are designed and what are the typical findings with concurrent schedules.

If pecking at key "A" results in reinforcement with a highly desirable reinforcer with a relative rate of reinforcement of 0.5, and pecking at key "B" occurs with a relative response rate of 0.2, you conclude

Which of the following describes behavior reinforced on a variable interval schedule?

Art teachers must often deal with "artist's block" in their students.To break the block, they advise students to make a mark on the canvas with the paint brush.The professors are hoping to initiate

Compare ratio and interval schedules.What patterns of behavior are generated by fixed and variable schedules?

Which of the following describes behavior reinforced on a variable ratio schedule?

According to the hyperbolic decay function of value discounting, when the delay is 2, the value of the reinforcer is _____.

When a VI schedule was yoked to a VR schedule so that pigeons on the VI schedule had the same opportunity to earn reinforcement as birds on the VR schedule,

For 30 ten-minute trials, a rat received a food pellet every other lever press.This rat was on A schedule of reinforcement.

Compare molar and molecular theories of maximization.What evidence supports each class of theory? What is the evidence that does not support each class of theory?

You notice that the pigeon in the laboratory you just entered has a particular way of pecking at the key in its cage. The pigeon seems to increase its rate of pecking towards the end of a two minute period, food is made available, and then pecking slows until the end of the next two minutes.You surmise that the pigeon is on a

Which of the following is the correct way to express the value discounting function mathematically?