Exam 15: Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories

Skinner was among the first to insist that classical conditioning and operant conditioning ________.

Bandura's ________ has proven to be the most influential of his ideas.

Behaviorists believe that personality differences can be entirely explained by ________.

Operant conditioning only occurs if an individual is consciously aware of the reinforcement.

Which of the following is NOT an optimal way to administer punishment?

Punishment involves ________.

An individual with an internal locus of control tends to have low generalized expectancies.

Freedom to select situations is an important corollary of behaviorist principles.

Mark thinks that if he asks for a $50-a-week raise, he will definitely get it. He really wants a $75-a-week raise and thinks his chances of getting a raise of that amount are about 25 percent. Expectancy value theory would predict that Mark will ask for a ________-a-week raise, and classic behaviorism would predict that he will ask for a ________-a-week raise.

Opponent processes in the body can counteract some of the effects of depressants.

Bandura's efficacy expectation is a belief about ________.

Pavlov's experiments on the timing of associations demonstrated that two things become associated because ________.

Which of the following is NOT a major achievement of the learning approaches to personality?

According to Dollard and Miller, ________ drives include drives for food, water, physical comfort, sexual gratification, and so on, whereas ________ drives include drives for love, prestige, money, and power.

Bob eats a new dish at his favorite restaurant and throws up an hour later. According to the process of classical conditioning, he will most likely ________.

Punishment is always more effective when it immediately follows the behavior rather than when it is delayed.

Barbara thinks that Joe will go out on a date with her if she can ever get up the courage to ask him. Barbara's perception of the likelihood that Joe will accept her invitation reflects her ________, whereas her doubts about her ability to ask him out reflect her ________.

E. L. Thorndike proposed that people learn to do things faster and more efficiently when the effects of the behavior are negative.

If you are frustrated because your coworker's performance prevented you from getting the end-of-the-year bonus you expected, Dollard and Miller would predict that you respond to this frustration with ________.

A ranked ordering of the behaviors that an individual might perform is called a(n) ________.