Exam 5: Learning

One of the most successful applications of behaviour modification has been in the treatment of psychological problems ranging from phobias to addictive behaviours.

Which of the following is not presented in the text as one of the major factors influencing the effectiveness of punishment?

Two-year-old Rick was playing with a balloon when it burst and made an extremely loud noise, causing him to cry. Now, whenever Rick sees a balloon, he becomes frightened. In this situation, crying at the loud noise is the

In fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement, the rate of responding is high because the number of reinforcers depends directly on the response rate.

Procrastinators can help themselves by

Drug overdoses can result if a typical dose of the drug is taken in a strange place.

In classical conditioning, what is the term for a neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response because it has been paired repeatedly with another stimulus that reliably elicits that response?

Negative reinforcement involves learning a behaviour because something negative follows the behaviour.

The skill of discrimination has

For maximum effectiveness, when operantly conditioning a behaviour, the reinforcer should be presented ________ the target behaviour.

Rescorla has suggested that the critical factor in classical conditioning is whether the conditioned stimulus provides information that enables the organism to reliably predict the occurrence of the unconditioned stimulus. This research is written from the ________ perspective.

Last winter, Carmen skidded on the ice and hit another car. This left her with a fear of driving on ice and snow that she finally overcame by the end of the winter. But her fear returned when she had to drive for the first time on the snow this winter. This is an example of

The tokens in a token economy are chosen because they are primary reinforcers.

If children behave better on Fridays than on other days, you might suspect that the children are given allowances on which schedule of reinforcement?

Which of the following would not be an example of classically conditioned response?