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A behavior analysis of remembering must refer to: a.) basic behavioral principles b.) past and current contingencies of reinforcement c.) inferred mental processes d.) both a and B |
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reification is treating a(n)_______ as if it were a_____. a.) act; thing b.) thing; act c.) noun; verb |
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you are reinforced on a VI schedule in the presence of your Facebook page, and on a VI schedule in the presence of Mazur. If your housemate forgot to pay the DSL bill, then Facebook responses are now on an extinction schedule. What will happen to the rate of your study responses on the unchanged Mazur Schedule? a.) Increase b.) Decrease |
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you are reinforced on a VI schedule in the presence of your Facebook page, and on a VI schedule in the presence of Mazur. If your housemate forgot to pay the DSL bill, then Facebook responses are now on an extinction schedule. What will happen to the rate of your study responses on the unchanged Mazur Schedule? a.) Increase b.) Decrease is this positive or negative behavioral contrast? |
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A pigeon 1st receives reinforcers for responding in the presence of either blue or yellow stimuli, that then the schedule for the yellow stimulus which is to extinction. You would expect responding in the presence of the blue stimulus to increase, which is called________ behavioral contrast. a.) Positive b.) negative |
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A pigeon 1st receives reinforcers for responding in the presence of either blue or yellow stimuli, but then the schedule for very yellow stimulus switches to extinction. You would expect responding in the presence of the blue stimulus to? a.) increase b.) decrease c.) remain unchanged |
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schedules of reinforcement have regularly, orderly, and profound effects on the organisms rate of responding. The importance of schedule of reinforcement cannot be over estimated. No description account or explanation of any operant behavior of any organism is complete unless the schedule of reinforcement is specified. |
Schedules are the main strings of behavioral control, and thus the study of schedules is central to the study of behavior... behavior that has been attributed to the supposed drives, needs, expectation, rumination, or insights of the organism can often be related much more exactly to regularities produced by schedules of reinforcement. |
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_______ is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial — like happiness, fear, or evil — as a material thing. This can be a way of making something concrete and easier to understand, like how a wedding ring is the reification of a couple's love. |
Reification |
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The theory that more probable behaviors will act as reinforcers for less probable behaviors, and that less probable behaviors will act as punishers for more probable behaviors. |
Premack's Principle |
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an improvement in the rate of learning across a series of discrimination problems, which occurs even though the positive and negative stimuli are different from one problem to the next. |
