- Higher order conditioning is difficult to achieve because it races against...
Your answer:
extinction
discrimination
generalization
spontaneous recovery
- Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?
Your answer:
poker chips
money
a bar of candy
a buzzer
- Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?
Your answer:
money
a bar of candy
a drink of water
warm, physical contact
- Presenting the unconditioned stimulus before the conditioned stimulus is known as _____ conditioning.
Your answer:
classical
backward
primary
inverted
- The process in which prior conditioning prevents conditioning to a second stimulus even when the two stimuli are presented simultaneously is called...
Your answer:
blocking
retroactive interference
proactive interference
backward conditioning
- In partial reinforcement, the program for deciding when to reinforce correct behaviors is called a...
Your answer:
reinforcement map
response-to-reinforcement guide
token economy
schedule of reinforcement
- Scott works at a job where he is paid a salary every two weeks. Scott is being reinforced on a _____ schedule.
Your answer:
variable interval
fixed interval
fixed ratio
variable ratio
- Lila doesn't like her psychology class because the instructor uses pop quizzes to test the class. As a result, she never knows when she'll be tested. Her instructor is using a _____ schedule.
Your answer:
variable ratio
variable interval
fixed interval
fixed ratio
- Perry works at a job where he is paid by commission. For every car Perry sells he gets 10% of the profits. He is being reinforced on a _____ schedule.
Your answer:
fixed ratio
fixed interval
variable ratio
variable interval
- Sandy's favorite activity is to go to Las Vegas and play the slot machines. Her gambling behavior is being reinforced by jackpots awarded on a _____ schedule.
Your answer:
variable interval
fixed ratio
fixed interval
variable ratio
- Automatic conditioning is the process by which...
Your answer:
subjects learn to operate in their environment
subjects learn from watching other people's behavior
one can voluntarily control biological functions
fixed ratio schedules are substituted for variable ratio schedules
- Learning that depends on mental processes that are not directly observable is called _____ learning.
Your answer:
automatic
primary
secondary
cognitive
- Learning the occurs but is not immediately reflected in behavior change is called...
Your answer:
innate learning
insight
vicarious learning
latent learning
- The mental image of an area, such as a maze or the floor plan of a building, is called a...
Your answer:
Gestalt
mental set
perceptual illusion
cognitive map
- After several unsuccessful attempts to reach a cookie jar on a shelf, a child suddenly realizes he can pull a chair over to stand on to reach the cookie jar. This type of learning is called...
Your answer:
insight
social learning
shaping
response acquisition
- The ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved is known as...
Your answer:
a response set
a response cue
latent learning
a learning set
- The researcher whose work with monkeys explored their ability to develop learning sets was...
Your answer:
Skinner
Chomsky
Harlow
Leaky
- A key to social learning theory is...
Your answer:
insight learning
cognitive mapping
latent learning
observational learning
- For observational learning to occur, each of the following must happen EXCEPT...
Your answer:
being reinforced for imitating the model
do what the model did
paying attention to what the model does
remembering what the model did
- Social learning theory's foremost proponent is...
Your answer:
Bandura
Watson
Thorndike
Skinner