Exam 10: Operant and Cognitive Approaches

Discuss the main differences between operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

Professor Cao is writing words on the overhead that describe operant conditioning.You notice that she makes a mistake.Which word did she accidentally write down that does not refer to operant conditioning?

A biological tendency found in animals to be able to recognize,attend to,and store certain cues more easily than other cues is called:

____ involves mental processes and learning through observation.

You want to write a paper on the effects watching,imitating,and modeling has on behavior.Which of the following journals should you look in?

Describe the four schedules of reinforcement: fixed ratio,fixed interval,variable ratio,and variable interval.How is behavior influenced by each of these schedules?

The various rules,programs,and ways that reinforcers occur after performing some behavior are called:

The apparatus used by Skinner to study operant conditioning is called a(n):

Which subject in Bandura's Bobo doll was most likely to show aggressive behavior?

Plotnik's example of skateboarder Tony Hawk shows that:

The focus of operant conditioning is on how:

Define positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement,as well as providing an example for each.

When is continuous reinforcement most appropriate?

____ give us a picture of an animal's ongoing responses and reinforcements across time.

Classical is to operant as:

In operant conditioning,extinction occurs because:

In ____,the consequences of a behavior influence whether an organism will perform the same behavior in the future.

A pattern in which students at a reform school clean up their rooms only before the weekly inspections is typical of which kind of reinforcement schedule?

In a recent study,subjects watched one of three movie clips,followed by a staged confrontation and competitive reaction time test.Which group of subjects acted the most aggressively?

Reinforcers,whether they be positive or negative,have the same effect on behavior,which is to: