Exam 6: B: Conditioning and Learning

In laboratory experiments,a cumulative recorder,which is a device with a moving strip of paper and a mechanical pen,is connected to a Skinner box.Rapid responding by the animal in this experiment will cause the pen on the cumulative recorder to

A reinforced response tends to be made again when similar antecedents are present.This is referred to as

You live in an apartment and your neighbor's stereo is blasting so loudly that your ears hurt.If you pound on the wall and the volume suddenly drops,you are more likely to pound on the wall again if the stereo is loud because you have

Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table,your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps first whenever you were sitting at the kitchen table and later whenever you were sitting at any table or desk in the house.If you do not feed your dog while sitting at any other table besides the kitchen table,the jumping and begging response that originally generalized to all the tables and desks will extinguish because of

Whenever you are trying to learn a complex skill,which of the following will almost always improve your learning and performance?

Social reinforcers consist of

Extinction in operant conditioning involves

Every time you give advice to a friend,she suddenly turns cold and rude toward you.Lately,you've stopped offering her advice because giving your friend advice has been

Which schedule of reinforcement may have long periods of nonreward that make it harder to discriminate between periods of reinforcement and extinction?

Pigeons and rats who are reinforced on fixed interval schedules stop responding immediately after they receive a reinforcer and do not start again until just before the next scheduled reinforcement.This illustrates that these animals are

New tools that make it easier for individuals to get feedback about their individual resource consumption are called

The probability of repeating a response is increased by which of the following consequences?

A teacher tells her first graders that whenever the bell on her clock rings,the students who are in their seats will each receive one token to put in their "happy jars." She then says,"No one knows when the clock will ring.It might be ten minutes,it might be 17 minutes,or only five minutes; so you better be in your seat." The teacher is using which schedule of reinforcement for "in-seat" behavior?

Regarding research on whether animals are sensitive to a passage of time,which of the following statements is FALSE?

In laboratory experiments,a cumulative recorder that has a moving strip of paper and a mechanical pen is connected to a Skinner box.when reinforcers are given to the animal,they are indicated on the paper by

On which schedule of reinforcement would a person or animal get rewarded on the average of every fifth response,that is,two correct responses would be made to obtain a reinforcer,sometimes seven responses,sometimes three,and so on with the average being five responses?

Information about the effects of a particular response is called

Punishment is LEAST effective in stopping a behavior when it is

What effect does negative reinforcement have on a person's responding?

After scrub jays were allowed to store worms and nuts in different locations,the scrub jays released after four hours flew to the worms,but did not fly to the worms if they are released five days later.This illustrates that the scrub jays