Exam 7: Extension B: Conditioning and Learning

Which of the following might serve as a secondary reinforcer?

Philip is reinforced with a $10 bill every time he makes the honor roll at school.This is an example of

Which of the following would be least likely to lose its effectiveness as a reinforcer for a child learning to do household chores?

Getting paid every two weeks at your job comes closest to which schedule of reinforcement?

Acquiring a response through partial reinforcement makes the response

Each time the owner of an aquarium turns on the aquarium light, the fish gather in the corner in which he routinely places food.Because he always turns the light on before feeding the fish, their actions demonstrate

The concept that best explains persistence at gambling is _____ reinforcement.

Which consequence increases the probability that a response will be repeated?

A pigeon learns to peck at a circle for food.The fact that it also pecks at an oval describes

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of effective feedback?

You want to stop your cat from clawing your new sofa by spraying a stream of water on the cat as punishment for clawing the furniture.If you are to be successful, you must

There is an old story about a young boy who was left to guard the village sheep.He was instructed to cry "wolf" if he thought the sheep were in danger.Even though there was no danger, the boy enjoyed crying "wolf" over and over, just to see the villagers come running.Then, when a wolf did appear, the disbelieving villagers ignored the boy's cry.The failure of the villagers to come illustrates the operant conditioning concept called

The phenomenon of stimulus control makes it clear that stimuli that affect operant responding

Because _____ reinforcement includes long periods of nonreward, it will be harder to discriminate between periods of reinforcement and extinction.

Your dog jumps up on you when you get home.You eliminate this behavior by ignoring the dog when it jumps on you.This is called

A high school student earns $1.00 for every ten boxes of candy he can sell door-to-door.His energetic selling reflects

A college professor who gives daily quizzes, grades them immediately, and returns them with the errors and corrected answers shown is

We pick up phones that are ringing, but rarely answer phones that are silent; and we go when the light is green, not when it is red.These are examples of

Preschoolers Jordan and Dennis were throwing sticks at other students on the playground, so their teacher made them sit on the sidewalk for five minutes, taking them away from the fun activities on the playground.Their teacher was using

Because you can think about past events and even imagine events in your future, you, like all humans, are