Psychology 220

Front 1

Harry spent his summer in the city panhandling. Every day he would sit on the sidewalk, put a cardboard sign
in front of him that said, "Please help," and place his hat on the sidewalk upside down. Then he would wait.
Every now and then someone would put money into his hat. Harry's reinforcement schedule is best described
as a _________

Back 1

variable time schedule

Front 2

Experiments done in natural settings are called _______

Back 2

field experiments

Front 3

Natural selection helps the species to adapt to change, not the individual

Back 3

T

Front 4

Secondary reinforcers are also called _______ reinforcers

Back 4

conditioned

Front 5

Lying is probably often the result of ______

Back 5

negative reinforcement

Front 6

An ________ is something an organism tries to escape or avoid

Back 6

aversive

Front 7

Differential reinforcement is best used in combination with ______.

Back 7

extinction

Front 8

One explanation for the PRE implies that the effect is really an illusion. This is the _________

Back 8

response unit hypothesis

Front 9

Learning is of vital importance because so many problems that face society involve _________

Back 9

behavior

Front 10

A teacher who looks for an increase in the number of correct performances per minute is using _______ as a
measure of learning

Back 10

fluency

Front 11

The phenomenon of __________ suggests that we should be more likely to develop aversions to novel foods
than to familiar ones

Back 11

latent inhibition

Front 12

Studies of choice involve _________.

Back 12

concurrent schedules