Exam 10: Operant and Cognitive Approaches

After a period of extinction,a temporary increase in the rate of responding is called:

Every 50 minutes,the class takes a break if their behavior is appropriate.They are on a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

A professor says to her student,"Nice job on that test." She has used:

Which of the following theorists argued that learning can take place when someone is watching another person and performs that behavior even when not reinforced?

The value of a secondary reinforcer is:

One of the steps in using operant conditioning to overcome a child's refusal to eat certain foods includes reinforcing her when she notices the food,then when it is placed in her mouth,then when she tastes the food,and when she swallows it.This best describes:

Suzanne randomly checks up on her employees several times throughout the day to praise them if they are working hard.None of the employees know when Suzanne will be checking up on them.Suzanne is using a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

If an organism emits a response only in the presence of reinforced stimuli and not in the presence of unreinforced stimuli,then the organism is displaying:

Spanking is an example of:

Verbal bullying,ostracizing peers,and spreading rumors are examples of _____ aggression.

Little Drew doesn't like his spaghetti dinner so he throws a temper tantrum.His dad Robert puts Drew in an empty room for three minutes and closes the door.Robert is using a procedure called:

Instrumental conditioning is also known as:

Behavior is emitted and then followed by a consequence in operant conditioning.

If you had to write a slogan for the idea of critical or sensitive periods,what would it be?

Classical is to operant as:

Time out removes a misbehaving child from an opportunity for reinforcement.

Kohler believed that chimps learned to solve problems through:

Positive reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated.Negative reinforcement ____ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated.

What refers to removing a reinforcing stimulus after a response that decreases the odds that the response will recur?

If B.F.Skinner was alive today,his website would be most likely named: