Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

Tanya and Yoshi have found that taking away their teenagers' cell phones or taking away other privileges are effective in reducing any misbehavior. Tanya and Yoshi are using

Punishment is LEAST effective in stopping a behavior when it is

The best way to differentiate operant conditioning from classical conditioning is to decide if the

Punishers, like reinforcers, are defined by

The most common error in the use of punishment for training or discipline is that it is

Ideally, children should want to behave well because

Compare and contrast classical and operant conditioning, including the nature of the response, the timing of learning, the role of the learner, the nature of the learning, and the learned expectancy for each.

Self-management based on keeping records of response frequencies is known as

If you give a child her favorite licorice candy for doing well in school, and she continues to do well in school, the licorice candy is

Annie is being noisy and disrespectful, and her mother gives her a "swat" on her rear end. Annie immediately gets quiet. The next time Annie is being noisy and disrespectful, her mother is most likely to use punishment again. According to research, which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the use of punishment?

The removal of a pleasant state of affairs that reduces the frequency of a target behavior is referred to as response cost, or

Because punishment is aversive, people and situations associated with punishment tend to become feared, resented, or disliked through

If you wear a particular tie and gets lots of compliments, you are more likely to wear this tie more often. This illustrates

A teacher tells her first graders that whenever the bell on her clock rings, the students who are in their seats will each receive one token to put in their "happy jars." She then says, "No one knows when the clock will ring. It might be ten minutes, it might be 17 minutes, or only five minutes; so you better be in your seat." The teacher is using which schedule of reinforcement for "in-seat" behavior?

The gradual molding of responses to a desired pattern is known as

The learned expectancy in classical conditioning is that the

A pigeon learns to peck at a circle for food. The fact that it also pecks at an oval describes

In the textbook example entitled "Shaping a Teacher," psychology students would look interested in the teacher's lecture when she was standing on the right side of the room, and they would look bored when she was standing on the left side. The students were shaping the teacher's behavior using __________reinforcers.

Children have been shown to imitate the violence portrayed in

With most classical conditioning, the optimal delay between CS and US is from half a second to about five seconds.