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1.
A rat being provided with ICS is wired to deliver electrical stimulation to its own _______ by pressing a bar in a Skinner box.
C. limbic system
2.
In her developmental psychology classes, Dr. Windham utilizes problem-based learning, which involves presenting the students with open-ended real-life cases. The students must determine the important aspects of the problem and then come up with a plan of action to solve the problem. Dr. Windham is using a type of
D. guided discovery.
3.
Extinction in operant conditioning involves
A. withholding reinforcement.
4.
A phobia can often be interpreted as a
B. conditioned emotional response.
5.
Which of the following is NOT a step in the behavioral self-management program discussed in your textbook?
C. choose reinforcing and punishing self-statements
6.
When trying to change a bad habit, if a person were to finally discover what is reinforcing an unwanted response and then removing, avoiding, or delaying the reinforcement, we would say this person has utilized the technique known as
A. extinction.
7.
Every time Lisa's dog heard the sound of the electric can opener he began to salivate because he associated the sound with the food. In this example, the sound of the can opener is a
C. CS.
8. T/F
Continuous reinforcement is more resistant to extinction than partial reinforcement.
False
9.
Philip is reinforced with a $10 bill every time he makes the honor roll at school. This is an example of
C. continuous reinforcement.
10.
In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, salivation to the bell was the
A. conditioned response.
11.
Seven-year-old Jai is watching his favorite television show in which the hero has to use violence in order to defeat the villains and save the city. Which of the following is most likely?
D. Jai is more likely to model the aggression he has seen in the television show.
12.
If Larry learned to fear rats due to his observing his mother's extreme, irrational fear of rats, Larry developed his fear of rats through
B. vicarious classical conditioning.
13.
Punishers are best defined as
A. any event that decreases the probability or frequency of a responses it follows.
14.
After the successful extinction of your son's whining for a toy while you are shopping, you go shopping several weeks later and he begins to whine for a toy as if he is just checking to see if the rules have changed back. This situation illustrates
B. spontaneous recovery.
15.
Which of the following best describes the unusual events that occurred in Pavlov's laboratory leading him to the discovery of classical conditioning?
B. Dogs sometimes salivated before meat powder was placed in their mouths.
16.
To be effective, punishment should be
B. immediate.
17.
Which of the following would be considered a primary reinforcer?
B. food
18.
Learning to make a response in order to postpone or prevent discomfort is known as
A. avoidance learning.
19.
Whenever you are trying to learn a complex skill, ______ will improve learning and performance.
B. increased feedback
20.
After Pavlov had conditioned his dogs to salivate to the bell, he repeatedly presented the bell without presenting the food. As a result, ______ occurred.
D. extinction
21.
Which of the following reinforcers is used to provide immediate incentives for learning and to avoid the problem of satiation?
A. tokens
22.
A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience is the definition of
D. learning.
23.
You are training a rat to press a bar. Instead of waiting for the rat's first accidental bar press, you reinforce the rat for facing the bar and then turning toward the bar. Next, you reinforce the rat every time he takes a step toward the bar, until he touches the bar. Lastly, you reinforce the rat for pressing the bar. You are
C. shaping the rat's behavior.
24.
Fatima sees her four-year-old son spontaneously picking up his toys. If she wishes for her son to continue this behavior, she should
A. praise her son immediately after he finishes picking up the toys.
25.
Violent video games tend to make aggressive behavior more likely because
B. practicing violence against other people, players may learn to be aggressive in real life. 100