Exam 10: Averse Control

The difference between an escape trial and an avoidance trial is that

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,

A guinea pig can prevent mild footshock by turning a running wheel during a brief tone CS. Early in training, the guinea pig receives several shocks because it fails to spin the wheel in time. However, over several trials the guinea pig successfully learns to prevent the shock. These later successful trials are most correctly referred to as

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

The reduction of fear to the shock-avoidance CS that accompanies extended avoidance training

Your friend checks her shoes before riding on the escalator, to make sure they are tied and will not get caught between the moving steps. You recognize her behavior as which of the following?

Keith's father is pleased to note that Keith no longer spends his afternoons breaking windows. According to his father, this change in behavior is due to Keith's fear of punishment, but Keith says that he no longer breaks windows because he likes working on cars and no longer has time to find windows to break. Keith's attitude reflects the assumptions of

According to the conditioned emotional response theory of punishment, punishment results in response suppression because

The goal of escape from fear experiments is to

Your friend tells you that she studies to avoid getting bad grades. Her explanation of the behavior is most like

Which theory suggests that the stimuli accompanying avoidance responses provide positive reinforcement for avoidance behavior?

The first component of the two-process theory of avoidance is

What is the fundamental problem in the analysis of avoidance behavior, and how is this problem resolved by two-process theory?

In a flooding procedure, the subject is

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

How is avoidance responding related to conditioned fear and the expectation of aversive stimulation?

Which theory suggests that punishment causes response suppression because a subject learns to engage in behaviors incompatible with the target response?

Which theory assumes positive reinforcement accounts for avoidance behaviors?

How can the concept of a safety signal be used to explain free-operant avoidance learning?

Compare discriminated avoidance to free-operant avoidance procedures.