Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

While Gabe was growing up, his father would get angry and yell and throw objects at the wall. As an adult now, Gabe also yells and throws objects when he gets angry. Gabe learned these behaviors through

A strategy for breaking bad habits that involves trying to get the same reinforcement using a new response is known as the strategy of cues and antecedents.

Feedback is most effective when it is frequent, immediate, and

Which psychologist developed a conditioning apparatus for animals and provided various practical applications of operant conditioning?

The direct activation of "pleasure centers" in the brain through intracranial self-stimulation would be considered a(n) __________ reinforcer.

Negative reinforcement occurs when a response

Which type of reinforcers gain their ability to promote learning because they are associated with primary reinforcers or can be exchanged for primary reinforcers?

An internal representation of relationships that acts as a guide is referred to as a(n)

Elaine wants to get to her classes, work, and church on time, so she keeps a tally sheet in her car with two columns labeled "On time" and "Late," and she puts a mark in each column to count the number of times she is on time and the number of times she is late. Elaine is keeping track of the frequency of her responses through __________.

Continuous reinforcement is more resistant to extinction than partial reinforcement.

After he is spanked, Terrence feels angry, frustrated, and hostile, and goes immediately outside and picks a fight with his younger brother. What is most likely to occur in the future?

In a psychology class, the students have to turn in a topic report every two weeks. Typically, they get in a writing frenzy a couple of days before the report is due; then they do not write anything until right before the next due date. This pattern of responding illustrates the partial reinforcement schedule known as __________.

You condition a person to blink each time you play a particular mid-level note on a piano by delivering a puff of air to the person's eye. If you then play a very high note or a very low note on the piano and do not deliver the puff of air, the person's blinking will

Any high-frequency response can be used to reinforce a low-frequency response, according to the __________ principle.

Young children may temporarily call all men daddy , much to the embarrassment of their parents, which illustrates operant stimulus __________.

A young boy has been told by his father not to go near the street. The boy looks at his father and then runs toward the busy street. His father catches the young boy before he makes it to the street and spanks him for this misbehavior. The young boy stops going near the street due to the consequence known as

When April is stressed and wants to relax, she has always reached for a glass of wine. However, she wants to break this use of alcohol as a means of relaxation, so she learns stress management techniques and now uses them when she feels stressed. April is using which strategy for breaking a bad habit?

Sieta wants to teach her daughter to say "Please" when she asks for something, so she decides to only comply with her daughter's request for something when her daughter says "Please." Thus, Sieta's compliance to her daughter's request is

Which schedule of reinforcement tends to produce moderate response rates in which responding is low following reinforcement, but rapidly increases as the time for the next reinforcer approaches?

In behavioral self-management, the activity you want to change is called the