Exam 21: Classical Conditioning

Paul and Michael sell magazine subscriptions by telephone.Paul is paid $1.00 for every five calls he makes,while Michael is paid $1.00 for every subscription he sells,regardless of the number of calls he makes.Paul's telephoning is reinforced on a ________ schedule,whereas Michael's is reinforced on a ________ schedule.

Resistance to extinction is most strongly encouraged by ________ reinforcement.

Stacey has a migraine headache and takes medicine to relieve the pain.In this case,the medicine is a

Soccer instruction that reinforces short kicks before attempting to reinforce long kicks best illustrates the process of

Matt regularly buckles his seat belt simply because it turns off the car's irritating warning buzzer.This best illustrates the value of

Billy is 10 years old.When he misbehaves,his parents primarily use spanking to punish him.Which of the following is true regarding Billy?

A slow but steady rate of operant responding is associated with the ________ schedule of reinforcement.

A fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a(n)

Janna's behavior is more strongly influenced by the momentary thrill of unprotected sex than by the prospect of an unwanted pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection.This best illustrates the impact of

A learned association between behaviors and resulting events is central to

Tennis instruction that reinforces soft,short lobs over the net before attempting to reinforce hard,long,cross-court hits best illustrates the process of

Jill is toilet training and has learned that her mother will give her a piece of candy each time she sits on the toilet.So Jill wants to sit on the toilet to get the candy.Jill's toilet-sitting behavior is called ________ because her intent is to produce a consequence,the candy.

The use of physical punishment may

The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called

B.F.Skinner believed that teaching machines could promote effective learning because they allow for both

Learning associations between one's own personal actions and resulting events is most relevant to the process of

Both classical and operant conditioning are forms of

Associative learning is best illustrated by

An event or situation signaling that an operant response will be reinforced is called a(n)

For professional baseball players,swinging at a pitched ball is reinforced with a home run on a ________ schedule.