Exam 6: B: Conditioning and Learning

Bernice is "potty training" Kenny.First,she allows him to become familar with the potty chair,next she reinforces Kenny for just sitting on the potty,and finally she reinforces Kenny for actually "using" the potty.Bernice is using a procedure called

Learning to recognize different automobile brands,animals,types of music,and even the answers on psychology tests all depend,in part,on

You want to stop your cat from clawing your new sofa by spraying a stream of water on the cat as punishment for clawing the furniture.If you are to be successful,you must

Ms.Campbell gives her students a star for every completed homework assignment.The star serves as a

Primary reinforcers are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

You come home from work and find that your dog has dug up the tree you just planted.To reduce this digging,you would be best advised to punish the dog

On a cumulative recorder that has a moving strip of paper and a mechanical pen connected to a Skinner box,no response by the animal would be indicated by a(n)

What do positive and negative reinforcement have in common?

Children who are working quietly on their homework when the hourly bell rings will be allowed to go to the play area for 10 minutes.Just before the bell is about to ring,the children become so quiet that you could hear "a pin drop" in the classroom.These children's quiet behavior occurred right before the bell because they are on which schedule of reinforcement?

The brief return of an operant response after its apparent extinction is known as

In its most basic form,response cost can be described as

Professional football players watch hours of videos of their game performance analyzed by their coaches.This is an example of the use of which of the following to improve performance?

When the reinforcer does not follow every response but occurs after a number of responses have been made or after a passage of time,you are using which reinforcement schedule?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using computer-assisted instruction (CAI)?

Of the reinforcement schedules listed,which is the most addictive and resistant to extinction?

When Jan helped her mother clean up after her baby brother,Jan's mother praised her daughter for being so thoughtful.For Jan,her mother's praise is serving as a

When you are first learning golf,you may hit three or four very great shots in an entire round with these great shots being somewhat random and unpredictable.You are being reinforced on what kind of partial reinforcement schedule?

When children engage in negative attention seeking,they are demonstrating the power of

Which of the following is the tendency to make an operant response when stimuli previously associated with reward are present and to withhold the response when stimuli associated with nonreward are present?

Drivers tend to demonstrate safer driving behaviors when a police car is present.The fact that drivers do this implies that the police car has become a(n)