Exam 7: Negative Reinforcement

In the diagram below, what is the shock?

The following contingency is an example of.

Give a brief example of each of the following -Negative reinforcer

Diagram a victim's negative-reinforcement model of a sick social cycle for a parent-child interaction, Rod and Dawn's or an original one, as you choose.

What is the standard term for reinforcement by the removal of an aversive stimulus?

In a negative reinforcement contingency, what is the shock?

Give a brief example of each of the following -Functional assessment

Please say a little bit about why the principle of negative reinforcement is so much better an explanation of Grace's behavior than the common notion that she's releasing a built-up pressure.

Give an example of the sick social cycle, using the sick-social-cycle diagram:

According to PoB, Grace's Tourette syndrome reflected an inner psychic force that had gone haywire and forced this abnormal behavior out of her.

Give a brief example of each of the following -The sick social cycle (victim's negative reinforcement model)

All harmful stimuli are negative reinforcers?

Diagram a negative reinforcement contingency in the Skinner box.

What is the negative reinforcer in a Skinner-box escape experiment?

Match the number in the boxes to the correct term. (Be careful on this one. The components in this table may not be arranged as they were in the text, so the answers aren't in the same positions as in the text.) Stimulus, Event, or Condition Negative Reinforcer Reinforcer Present Ignore 1 Remove 2 Ignore -____negative reinforcement

Contingencies can control our behavior, even when we are unaware of those contingencies.

Explain how you could use a negative reinforcer to modify behavior.

Match the following definitions with the technical terms below. (Not all of the terms will necessarily be used. In fact, some may be fictitious.) -___ Negative reinforcement contingency

There are two Basic Reinforcement Contingencies. One is positive reinforcement and the other is ____________________________.

Please describe a couple interventions designed to decrease the aversiveness of the negative reinforcers that were reinforcing a student's escape behavior.