Exam 10: A Synthetic Perspective on Instrumental Action

Learned helplessness, learned irrelevance, and generalized learned irrelevance are all examples of a reduction in learning caused by exposure to a _______ contingency.

Travis's partner cheated on him. Once a powerful reinforcer his partner, has been "devalued." Travis no longer picks up the phone to call his partner because he has developed _______ in his experiences with his partner.

SSDRs are

Think of anorexia as arising from a fear of getting fat and explain it from the perspective of Mowrer's two-factor theory.

Researchers have found that one of the most important determinants of the psychological impact of aversive events is

A fine-grained analysis of behavior patterns that occur when food is delivered at fixed intervals, regardless of behavior, revealed that different subjects engage in a variety of behaviors for a brief period of time after the delivery of a reward. These idiosyncratic behavior patterns among different subjects are referred to as _______ behaviors.

Response prevention refers to

After dancing with Eric all night (at least 20 songs), Sydney sees Scott enter the disco. At the end of the current song, she abandons Eric and goes to dance with Scott. Perhaps Sydney is experiencing a variety of

Learned helplessness can occur when the subject

Analyze the following statements and identify which ones express the key assumptions of the two-factor theory.

How would you demonstrate the operation of an R-O association?

If a researcher coincidentally selects an SSDR as the instrumental avoidance response, the subject should

The perceptual-defensive-recuperative model assumes that

Which of the following examples illustrates response prevention?

The hippocampus seems to be involved in _______ learning, while the caudate nucleus is necessary for the expression of _______.

Avoidance learning is somewhat puzzling because

Which of the following statements about instrumental avoidance learning is true?

Herrnstein rejected the notion that temporal cues, aversiveness, or fear motivate Sidman avoidance responding. Instead, he argued that Sidman avoidance results from

Research on SSDRs has shown that

Develop a test that would allow you to distinguish between a Pavlovian SSDR and an instrumental avoidance response, and explain how you would know which type of response was occurring.