Exam 5: Learning Concepts to Improve Performance: Part B

To effectively manage employee performance,managers should try to:

Operant behaviors can be influenced by:

A ____ schedule of reinforcement is being applied when a desired behavior must occur a specified number of times before it is reinforced.

When a pleasant event is added,the contingency of reinforcement is:

Explain the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers.

Give an example from your own experience of a situation in which a manager in the work setting used punishment.Be sure to clearly identify the antecedent,the behavior,and the consequence in the punishing contingency of reinforcement.Describe the outcome of the use of punishment.Was it effective or ineffective? Why was this the case? Were there any manifestations of the frequent negative effects of punishment as identified in the text?

Describe continuous and intermittent reinforcement schedules and identify the four primary types of intermittent reinforcement schedules.

According to the Across Cultures competency,Flowers: A Symbol of Love?,In ____,a dozen yellow roses are inappropriate-yellow suggests infidelity-and cut flowers by the dozen or any even number are unlucky.

Describe the four primary types of reinforcement contingencies and their impact on behavior.Identify which are the most desirable for a manager to use and why.

Escape learning is an example of:

For maximum effectiveness,all of the following is true about punishment except:

When using positive reinforcement,the principle of ____ states that the reinforcer must be administered only if the desired behavior is performed.

All of the following are ways in which self-efficacy has an impact on learning except:

Provide an example of a variable ratio schedule.

____ is the removal of all reinforcing events.

Oral reprimands are appropriate to correct:

The purpose of reinforcement is to ____ increase the frequency of employee behavior.

A response is learned in operant conditioning because it:

For vicarious learning to occur,several conditions must be met.Which of these is NOT one of the conditions?

When using positive reinforcement,the principle of ____ states that the reinforcer will be most effective if administered immediately after the desired behavior has occurred.