Exam 7: Behavioral and Social Cognitive Approaches

Everything we know is learned.

Mrs. Toledo knows that it is difficult for kindergarteners to perform all of the routines of the classroom perfectly right away. Thus, at the beginning of the year, she gives all of her students some stickers on the sticker board for performing at least 3 out of the 12 tasks required in the classroom correctly even if they have not yet mastered the others. Slowly throughout the year, Mrs. Toledo increases the number of tasks that the students must do in order to receive the stickers, and by the end of the year the students are performing all of the 12 tasks correctly and receiving their stickers. In this scenario, what is Mrs. Toledo using to encourage her students to learn all of the tasks required?

Researchers have found that self-regulatory learners also often have which of the following traits?

Analyze how teachers can effectively use modeling to cultivate students' learning.

In the United States, which of the following students is most likely to receive physical punishment in school?

Analyze what behaviorism is and what research would be performed within this paradigm.

Which of the following statements best describes a prompt?

Ms. Jones gives her students bonus points after an average of four desirable classroom behaviors. In other words, Ms. Jones administers points to her students sometimes after they have exhibited two desirable classroom behaviors, sometimes after they have exhibited five desirable classroom behaviors, sometimes after they have exhibited three desirable classroom behaviors, and sometimes after they have exhibited six desirable classroom behaviors. What type of reinforcement is Ms. Jones using in her classroom?

Which of the following scenarios best depicts negative reinforcement?

According to the textbook, of the following strategies for decreasing undesirable behaviors, which strategy should be tried last?

The approach to learning described as social cognitive emphasizes which of the following?

Dejohn is a high-achieving student who is also a self-regulatory learner. Dejohn most likely sets specific learning goals and uses more learning strategies as compared to his low-achieving peers.

Which of the following statements best describes shaping?

As students in U.S. schools have become more ethnically diverse in recent decades, their teachers

Research shows that teaching students strategies as well as self-regulation skills is critical in many academic areas. For students in a high school writing class, which of the following is a strategy?

In classical conditioning, a generalization occurs when

Of the following scenarios, which is the best example of negative reinforcement?

Examine effective strategies for using time-out in the classroom.

The conditioned response is a learned response to the conditioned stimulus that occurs after the UCS- CS pairing.

What is the schedule of reinforcement for a behavior that is reinforced after a set number of responses?