Exam 7: Schedules of Reinforcement

CRF stands for ________.

Things are going pretty well for George (see item 26) until he jumps from reinforcing every tenth response to reinforcing every 50th response. At this point, the pigeon responds erratically and nearly Stops responding entirely. George's pigeon is suffering from _________.

Extinction often increases the frequency of emotional behavior.

Bill spends his summer in the city panhandling. Every day he takes a position on a busy corner and accosts passersby saying, "Can you spare some changeMost people ignore him, but every now and Then someone gives him money. Bill's reinforcement schedule is best described as a _________.

George trains a pigeon to peck a disk by reinforcing each disk peck. Once the response is learned, George begins to cut back on the reinforcers. At first he reinforces every other response, then every Third response, every fifth response, every tenth response, and so on. George is using a procedure Called _________.

A schedule that does not require the performance of a particular behavior is the _________.

Harlan Lane and Paul Shinkman put a college student's behavior on extinction following VI reinforcement . The student performed the behavior 8,000 times without reinforcement.

In a tandem schedule, behavior is performed during a series of schedules, but food reinforcement comes only at the end of the last schedule. What reinforces behavior during the earlier schedules when food is not provided?

_____________ led the way in the study of choice.