Exam 7: Schedules of Reinforcement

The immediate effect of extinction is often an abrupt increase in the rate of the behavior being extinguished. This is called an extinction ______.

In VI schedules, the reinforcer occurs periodically regardless of what the organism does.

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

If you increase the requirements for reinforcement too quickly you are likely to see evidence of ratio _______.

Post-reinforcement pauses are now often referred to as _________.

Your text reports the case of a man who apparently made hundreds of harassing phone calls. The man's behavior was most likley on a(n) _________.

The schedule that is likely to produce a cumulative record with scallops is the _________.

FT and VT are both kinds of ______ reinforcement.

___________ schedules differ from other schedules in that the rules describing the contingencies change systematically.

A teacher has a student who gives up at the first sign of difficulty. How can the teacher increase the child's persistence?

Studies of choice involve _________.

The term ________ refers to the pattern and rate of performance produced by a particular reinforcement schedule.

When food is the reinforcer, it is possible to stretch the ratio to the point at which an animal expends more energy than it receives.

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 _________.

In schedules research, VD stands for ________.

The rule describing the delivery of reinforcement is called a ________of reinforcement.

When a response is placed on extinction, there is often an increase in emotional behavior.

A chain schedule is most like a _________ schedule.

__________ refers to the point at which a behavior stops or its rate falls off sharply.

John spent his summer picking cantaloupes for a farmer. The farmer paid John a certain amount for every basket of cantaloupes picked. John worked on a _________.