Exam 10: Choice Matching and Self Control

Which of the following is a useful technique to facilitate the purchase of healthy foods?

Playing video games instead of studying for one evening will _____ have significant effects on your long term goal of getting good grades, but according to the _____ model, the effects of such choices are _____.

The major problem students face when attempting to use watching television as a self-reinforcer for studying is that

Jamal's mother asks him to wait in the kitchen without touching the cookies while she is busy showing some visitors around the house. What should Jamal do to avoid touching the cookies?

People who generally prefer a larger later reward over a smaller sooner reward may be said to have a _____ delay function for that reward compared to people who prefer the smaller sooner reward.

Young children are likely to have _____ delay functions for larger later rewards than older children.

Last year, Jacqueline had a psychology course and a physics course. She had more quizzes in the psychology courses and was earning better grades compared to the physics course. She devoted more than half of her study time to psychology last year. This year, she has another psychology course and another physics course.  This time she has more quizzes in physics, and her grade is also better in physics. She still spends more than half of her time studying for psychology. According to the matching law, this distribution of effort can be accounted for by _____.

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 a green key should have been 25% under one condition of the experiment and 55% under another condition of the experiment. The respective percentages were instead 35% and 70%. This is most likely an example of

According to the matching law, on a concurrent VI 15-sec VI 60-sec schedule of reinforcement, what proportion of responses will be emitted on the VI 15-sec schedule?

The major problem with self-reinforcement is that

According to the _____ model, each individual choice on a self-control task slightly increases or decreases the likelihood of obtaining the long-term goal.

In order to be most effective, when should a commitment response be made?

From a temporal perspective, _____ can be defined as preference for _____ rewards.

The reinforcers for exhibiting self-control tend to be _____ than for exhibiting impulsiveness.

Over time, Billie's delay curves for different reward alternatives become somewhat flatter. What might account for the change?

With the help of a graph, describe how a commitment response serves to facilitate self-control.

Traditional explanations of self-control by using the term "willpower"

The major problem with the use of self-punishment is that one may

In order to maximize overall reinforcement on a concurrent VI 20-sec VR 50 schedule, a pigeon should ideally respond

According to the matching law, in the context of the time it spent outside its own territory, a pied wagtail should have spent 30% of its time in a meadow when there were fewer insects and 70% of its time in the meadow when there were more insects. In reality, the respective percentages were 40% and 80%. What could account for this result?