Exam 10: Operant and Cognitive Approaches

Operant conditioning explains how animals learn cognitive maps.

In operant conditioning,generalization has occurred when:

Skinner studied operant conditioning.

According to the Law of Effect,behavior that is followed by positive consequences is weakened.

If parents wanted to increase the study habits of their children,they might consider using operant conditioning.The first step would be to:

What do positive reinforcement,negative reinforcement,positive punishment,and negative punishment all have in common?

What names are most associated with operant conditioning?

Mom tells Billy that she will pay him to pull weeds from her flower garden.Because Mom is busy,she sometimes gives Billy a dime when he pulls five weeds,sometimes when he pulls 10 weeds,and other times when he pulls 20 or more weeds.The reinforcement schedule Mom is using is:

You remember a friend of yours in elementary school stuck his tongue on a pole on a playground swing set in the middle of winter.He yelled in pain,but finally pulled his tongue off the pole.He said,"I'll never do that again,it hurts!" His behavior of putting his tongue on the pole involved ____ since he never did it again.

The administration of a spank will be most effective when it is:

How did Shinichi Suzuki adapt the Suzuki method to three- and four-year-olds who do not have fully developed verbal skills?

In operant conditioning,behavior that can be modified by its ____ is called a(n)____.

A college student taking a composition class hears that the professor wants a topic for the paper in two weeks,followed by a bibliography in four weeks,then an outline in 6 weeks,a first draft in 8 weeks,and the final version in 12 weeks.These deadlines to reinforce behaviors that lead up to the completed paper best illustrate:

According to the textbook,what is the best explanation for a professional baseball player eating chicken every day that a game is scheduled?

Shirley is about to teach a group of eight-year-olds the backstroke.She wants to do this using operant conditioning.At the outset of the swimming course,Shirley should:

After operantly conditioning a rat to press a bar,a psychologist stops providing the reinforcing pellets.The rat eventually stops pressing the bar.Bar pressing has undergone:

The goal of operant conditioning is to ____,while the goal in classical conditioning is to ____.

Which of the following theorists argued that learning involves a mental representation of the environment?

You are babysitting your three-year-old niece and notice that she is acting very much like a character from a television show.Being an astute psychology student,you reason that you are most likely witnessing:

"A consequence of a behavior that decreases the likelihood of that behavior occurring again" is the definition of: