Exam 10: Operant and Cognitive Approaches

Miranda comes home late one evening past her curfew only to find her parents waiting up for her.Her father says,"Miranda,you're late! You may not use the car for an entire month." Miranda's father is using:

____ is a consequence that has the effect of decreasing the chance that the behavior that came before it will happen again.

Partial reinforcement is defined as reinforcement in which:

Pica has been successfully treated using operant conditioning.Each time an inedible object was selected,the subject received ____.Each time an appropriate,edible object was selected,____ was presented.

Which of the following is not among the four steps in using operant conditioning to teach young children to taste,chew,and eat a food?

The example of a Massachusetts school requiring students to wear backpacks that contain shock devices illustrates the use of ______.

What technique involves removing reinforcing stimuli after noncompliance occurs in a child?

One of the websites that you've recently visited was a site describing techniques for parents to manage their children's behavior.You notice that many of the techniques are based on operant conditioning.These techniques share what in common?

In operant conditioning,the reinforcer is contingent on the UCR.

Right before a game,a baseball player goes through a series of ritualistic behaviors that he says give him good luck,but in fact are not in reality associated with any reinforcer.This ball player illustrates:

Whiskers is a cat being used in Thorndike's studies on learning.The amount of time it takes Whiskers to get out of the puzzle box to get a piece of fish is decreasing.Thorndike would conclude that:

You are visiting some friends who have a three-year-old who is being toilet trained.You hear the mother reinforcing the child after he says that he has to urinate,after he enters the bathroom,and after he uses the toilet.The mother has used the operant technique called:

"If they don't pay attention,they'll never be able to do it," a frustrated teacher complains as she attempts to model the steps on how to solve a math problem.Her goal is to have the students learn,but even if she gets her students to pay attention,they still must:

The Great Carlo is an internationally known lion trainer.You ask him how he goes about training his lions.He responds by saying something about consequences that increase the chance that the desired behavior will again be performed.You recognize his method as:

"I can see in my mind the layout of the town I visited last summer." This person is using her ____ of the town.

What problem was the chimp in Kohler's study attempting to solve?

In the early stages of shaping a rat to press a lever,the teacher would:

Which of the following statements regarding imprinting is not true?

Conditioning a rat to press a lever is most associated with the work of:

"Maybe this lottery ticket will be a winner.The last couple ones I've bought were losers,but I do buy a winner every once in a while." This person's lottery ticket-buying behavior is on what schedule of reinforcement?