Exam 10: Choice Matching and Self Control

Conger and Killeen (1974) found that, during a social interaction with two confederates, the proportion of time that the subject looked toward one of the confederates _____ the proportion of verbal approvals received from that confederate.

One problem with the tendency to meliorate is that

The availability of other sources of reinforcement can serve to:

The matching law predicts that on a concurrent VI 15-sec VI 60-sec schedule, 80% of responses should be emitted on the VI 15-sec schedule and 20% on the VI 60-sec schedule. In reality, 65% of responses are emitted on the VI 15-sec schedule and 35% on the VI 60-sec schedule. This is an example of _________.

Tactics that Skinner used to facilitate his writing included:

A possible reason why self-reinforcement is sometimes effective is that:

The general relationship between reward value and decreasing delay is that the function for reward value looks somewhat similar to the typical response pattern on a(n) _____ schedule of reinforcement.

In _____, the proportion of responses on the richer versus poorer schedules is _____ different than would be predicted by matching.

To add extra incentive to exercise, Heather publicly announces to her friends that, starting this Monday, she is going to start running each morning. From Skinner's perspective, running is the _____ response, while the announcement is the _____ response.

According to the matching law, in an experiment where a pigeon has to press colored keys to receive food, the percentage of responses emitted on the green key should have been 65% when it was associated with the richer schedule and 15% when it was associated with the poorer schedule. The respective percentages were instead 55% and 10%. This is an example of

Repeated exposure to rewards presented at gradually increasing delays has been shown to:

Define the matching law. State the matching law as an equation and define each of its terms.

Which of the following will most likely be the result of no COD on a concurrent VI 60-sec VI 20-sec schedule?

Robynne spends a lot of time hanging around the marketing department, an area that she finds quite interesting, and little time at her desk working. This distribution of behavior is consistent with the notion(s) of

I am most likely to gorge on cookies before dinner when I am in a _____ environment.

Skinner viewed self-control as involving two types of responses, a _____ response and a(n) _____ response.

Natalia decides to reinforce exercising with one hour of television after each exercise session. The major problem with this tactic is that

If Samantha obtains 70% of her sales from client A and 30% from client B, the matching law predicts that she will choose to spend _____ of her time with client A.

According to the matching law, a pigeon will emit _________ times as many responses on a VI 10-sec schedule as it will on a VI 60-sec schedule.

Matching would be indicated by an average of _____ responses per minute on a VI 10-sec alternative and _____ responses per minute on a VI 60-sec alternative.