Question 1

Professor Rochelle told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door.But if her door was open,it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time.Professor Rochelle's door being open was a ___________ for _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) discriminative stimulus;asking questions 
B) discriminative stimulus;not asking questions 
C) discriminative response;asking questions 
D) discriminative response;not asking questions

Question 2

Seligman's concept of learned helplessness has been extended into the field of psychopathology to explain the emergence of schizophrenia in late adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his shee

Accepted Answer

A) observational learning 
B) latent learning 
C) instrumental conditioning 
D) conditioned taste aversions

Question 4

Describe Pavlov's classical conditioning studies in terms of the UCS,UCR,CS,CR and his results.Briefly discuss two examples of classical conditioning in your own life,naming the UCS,UCR,CS,and CR.

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome,he experimented with sounding the metronome and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away.Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome.This represents the process called ___________________.

Accepted Answer

A) acquisition 
B) testing 
C) extinction 
D) spontaneous recovery

Question 6

A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned her room.What is the cookie in this example?

Accepted Answer

A) punisher 
B) positive reinforcer 
C) negative reinforcer 
D) conditioned response

Question 7

When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.The salivation was a(n)____________.

Accepted Answer

A) unconditioned response 
B) unconditioned stimulus 
C) conditioned response 
D) conditioned stimulus

Question 8

When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement,that schedule is called a _____________ schedule.

Accepted Answer

A) ratio 
B) interval 
C) conditioned 
D) time-delayed

Question 9

Albert was a little boy who was shown to be remarkably resistant to having his emotional responses conditioned by Watson.Watson presented Albert with a cute little furry rat and then rang a loud bell.Later,Albert should have become scared of the bell,but this never happened.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Unlike mammals,birds seem to develop conditioned aversions to food based on which sense?

Accepted Answer

A) taste 
B) smell 
C) vision 
D) touch

Question 11

In a conditioning experiment,a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit.After several pairings,the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound.Which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

A) The blinking of the eye serves as stimulus. 
B) The puff of air serves as the unconditioned stimulus. 
C) The puff of air serves as the conditioned stimulus. 
D) The blinking of the eye serves as the conditioned stimulus.

Question 12

What was the conditioned stimulus (CS)in the case of Little Albert?

Accepted Answer

A) a white rat 
B) a loud noise 
C) a high chair 
D) a small enclosed space

Question 13

Little Albert's acquired fear of a white rat was a classic example of a(n)_____________________ response.

Accepted Answer

A) classical counterconditioned 
B) conditioned emotional 
C) positively reinforced 
D) negatively reinforced

Question 14

Maricella works as a seamstress.Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts,she will receive $5.When done with the five shirts,she dumps them into a bin and gets paid.Her pattern of shirt completion is most likely to be _____.

Accepted Answer

A) rapid shirt completion with a short break after each five completed 
B) long pauses after she receives the $5 
C) a slow,steady rate of shirt-making without pauses 
D) a fast,steady rate of shirt-making without pauses

Question 15

Reinforcement that is given for a response emitted after each hour and half (e.g. ,10 a.m. ,11:30 a.m. ,1

Accepted Answer

A) variable ratio 
B) variable interval 
C) fixed interval 
D) fixed ratio

Question 16

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

Accepted Answer

A) Researchers have found that only human beings are capable of insight learning. 
B) Researchers have found support for the existence of both human and animal insight learning. 
C) Researchers have found that apes are capable of insight only after being taught this by humans. 
D) Researchers have proven that all creatures,even one-celled organisms such as the amoeba,are capable of insight learning.

Question 17

In their 1961 paper on instinctive drift,the Brelands determined that three assumptions most Skinnerian behaviorists believed in were not actually true.Which is one of the assumptions that was NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) The animal comes to the laboratory a tabula rasa,or "blank slate," and can be taught anything with the right conditioning. 
B) Differences between species of animals are insignificant. 
C) All responses are equally able to be conditioned to any stimulus. 
D) All of these were not true.

Question 18

Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "Bobo" doll study.The term Bobo refers to ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) Bandura's pet name for the dog used in the study 
B) Bandura's loyal but strange assistant that carried out the study 
C) Bandura's nickname that his wife had given him 
D) the type of inflatable doll that was used in the study

Question 19

________ refers to a series of smaller behaviors that eventually form a desired and more complex behavior when reinforced operantly.

Accepted Answer

A) Successive approximations 
B) Successive shaping 
C) Successive modification 
D) Approximal modification

Question 20

After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory overseas as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together IPODs.The boss wants to know the best pay schedule to get the maximum number of pieces made by his workers.The boss wants you to describe various schedules of payment to him and tell which might be best for the plant.Using the principles of operant conditioning,describe the various pay schedules and what would be the best one for his goal of getting the most production.

Accepted Answer

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