Exam 4: Instrumental Learning: Reward

In the last 3 months, Mike never knows when he is going to get his allowance from his parents. He knows that he gets paid about every week, but sometimes his allowance comes 10 days after the previous one, sometimes only 4 days separate his allowance, while some payments come on a regular, 7-day rotation. The type of reinforcement schedule being used is a:

Unconscious learning is demonstrated by:

Mary is trying to lose weight, and after each 5-pound reduction in her weight, she rewards her efforts by buying herself a new pair of shoes. The shoes, in this scenario, represent which element of the ABC approach to behavior modification?

Giving a child a new pencil as a reward for a good test score would be an example of:

Using the situation in question 4.10, if Mike's parents started paying him his allowance every Friday, without fail, the reinforcement schedule being used would be a:

James loves candy and hates vegetables. However, his father wants to make sure that James eats his vegetables, since they're good for him. To ensure vegetable consumption, therefore, James is only allowed to have candy after he has eaten his vegetables. This situation illustrates the application of:

Smith is trying to teach Billy to WANT to do his homework, because of the personal satisfaction that homework completion will bring to Billy. Dr. Smith is essentially trying to enhance Billy's:

In a Skinner Box, a rat presses a bar and receives a food pellet. In this case, the food serves as:

Instrumental Learning involves understanding the connection between:

Conditioning procedures, when used on lower animals such as monkeys, dogs, etc., are only used to

Thorndike's puzzle-box research showed that:

In a bar-pressing operant conditioning situation, Dr. Smith has defined a light as an S^D. During the experiment, whenever the light comes on, what should the participant (a rat) do?

A reinforcer:

The idea that reinforcers can be behaviors, and not stimuli, is central to which reinforcement approach?

Tolman and Honzik's latent learning experiment showed that:

F. Skinner, in many of his early writings, was against any type of explanations for behaviors that postulated internal conditions, since these conditions could not be observed. According to this idea, which of the following theories would view as invalid explanations of reinforcement?

If an experimenter wanted to produce a relatively constant response rate among their subjects, the best type of reinforcement schedule would be:

Which of the following can be taken as evidence of the persistence of a habituated behavior?

Willis has been trying to teach his monkeys a new behavior using different reinforcement schedules, but the animals can't seem to learn the appropriate responses. This failure to learn may be due to:

Jones is trying to demonstrate peak shift in his pigeons. If a 60-watt light is designated as the S^D, and a 90-watt light is designated as the S^Δ, responding to which light could be taken as evidence of peak shift?