Exam 10: A Synthetic Perspective on Instrumental Action

In a car-racing video game you are on a familiar stretch of road and know you will have the opportunity to pass your opponent in about 3 minutes. You begin to bump his bumper with yours until the opportunity to pass arrives. This bumping is a(n) _______ behavior.

The crucial feature of a task that produces learned helplessness is the

Which statement about the processes involved in instrumental learning is false?

To be successful in shaping behavior, a researcher

Negative automaintenance is said to occur when

Punishment involves suppression of behavior by presenting aversive stimuli contingent on performing the behavior. Because so many natural responses to aversive stimuli involve suppression,

Describe the learned helplessness procedure, its general effects, and the Pavlovian phenomena to which it is similar.

Learned helplessness is less likely to occur when the subject experiences _______ before the helplessness treatment.

Tricia knows Dan, and occasionally talks to him on the phone or invites him to her house with other friends. While working on her senior thesis, she encounters a very hard statistical problem, and Adele tells her that Dan is an expert statistician. Tricia immediately invites him over for dinner. Tricia's change in behavior is most like the changes associated with