Exam 7: Avoidance and Punishment

The effects of punishment are

According to two-factor theory,in a shuttle-box shock-avoidance procedure,an avoidance response is reinforced by

According to two-factor theory,the procedure of response blocking or flooding

Learned helplessness is likely to develop if

In a token system,if a person loses points for using bad language,this is an example of

Suppose an animal first receives tone-shock pairings in one chamber,and then learns to jump over a barrier to escape a shock in a shuttle box.If the tone is now presented in the shuttle box,the likely result is

Taking an aspirin every day to reduce one's chances of a heart attack is an example of a behavior controlled by

If an inappropriate behavior appears to occur because it is reinforced by attention from others,the best behavior decelerator to use is probably

A young boy disobeys his parents by coming home late.An example of the use of negative punishment would be to

When flooding is used as behavior therapy,it is important to

According to the one-factor theory of avoidance,

A disadvantage of using punishment is that

It may be difficult to reduce a behavior with punishment if

To obtain the maximum reduction in a behavior,the most effective schedule of punishment is

As animals become experienced in an avoidance task,

Various experiments have shown that avoidance responding

Reinforcing normal speech while ignoring psychotic speech is an example of

To treat a woman in a psychiatric hospital who hoarded towels,the nurses gave the woman a large number of towels.This is an example of

According to Bolles,typical laboratory experiments on avoidance are not representative of avoidance in the natural environment because

After training an avoidance response,response blocking can