Exam 10: Averse Control

In a free-operant avoidance procedure, the subject avoids shock by making responses to increase the number of

A rat is placed in a test arena.When a two-second tone sounds, the rat must push a lever in the arena to prevent a mild footshock from being delivered.If the rat does not push the lever, the shock is delivered periodically until the lever is depressed.On early trials, the rat often fails to push the lever until the shock is delivered.These early trials are referred to as

Suppose you want to train a puppy to stop chewing your shoes.Which of the following will result in the greatest response suppression?

In a time out procedure, behavior modification is achieved by

Which procedure is carried out to determine if an organism can learn to avoid a non-signaled aversive stimulus?

Provide three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that your spinal cord learns.

Your cat tried to avoid the new puppy by running away, but the puppy always caught the cat.Now, the cat successfully avoids the puppy by becoming very still every time the puppy is near.Which theory best accounts for the shaping of your cat's behavior?

The problem with using punishment outside the laboratory to modify behavior is that

Punishment is also referred to as

Which theory rejects the importance of instrumental conditioning in the development of the form of avoidance behavior?

One group (Classical Conditioning) of guinea pigs was placed in a running wheel, a tone CS was presented, and 2 seconds later a brief shock was administered.Another group (Avoidance) also was placed in a running wheel, a tone CS was presented, and a brief shock was administered only if the subjects did not move the wheel during the CS presentation.After several trials, what do you suspect was the response to the CS?

Which theory assumes positive reinforcement accounts for avoidance behaviors?

The most important factor contributing to the extinction of an avoidance response in a flooding procedure is

The goal of escape from fear experiments is to

How is the nature of an animal's avoidance response determined according to the species­specific defense reaction hypothesis?

The two-process theory of avoidance asserts that the reinforcing properties of avoidance trials are due to

In a free-operant procedure, if the R-S interval is shorter than the S-S interval, you would expect

Which is true of the assumptions of both SSDR theory and the predatory imminence hypothesis?

One problem with using punishment to alter behavior is that parents will often pay less attention to a child when it is reading quietly than when he or she is engaging in a behavior that is unacceptable.When this happens,

Compare the conditioned emotional response theory of punishment to the avoidance theory of punishment.Provide evidence of support for each theory.