Exam 10: The Challenge of Behaviorism: Dollard and Miller, Skinner, and Staats

If you hear music every time you scratch your forehead, and so you scratch your forehead more and more often, Skinner would conclude that the music was

According to the original frustration-aggression hypothesis,

Psychological behaviorism can be applied to childrearing by identifying and teaching basic behaviors.

The rate of responding is reduced by punishment.

A fixed ratio schedule is a kind of partial reinforcement schedule.

A shortcoming of continuous reinforcement is that it produces learning that is

Johnny's parents ask, "Do you want to go to camp this summer, or go on vacation with the rest of the family?" Johnny does neither; he runs away from home. Apparently, the choice given him presented A(n) __________ conflict.

Skinner's theory has had very little influence on psychology.

Sometimes Leslie is terrified of spiders; sometimes she is not. According to Dollard and Miller, one likely reason for this variation in the level of fear is

Dollard and Miller explained aggression with their __________ hypothesis.

Sarah has learned to say, "May I watch television?" when she hears her older sister ask that same question. Her older sister asks when the clock says that it is 7 PM, but Sarah can't tell time yet. This Is an example of __________.

The dominant response is always the most socially desirable response in a situation.

Skinner's theory did not say anything about issues of freedom and free will.

According to Miller and Dollard's theory, a person who does not do anything will not learn anything.

Discuss the research relating writing to physical and emotional well-being.

Freud's concept of "libido" corresponds to Dollard and Miller's concept of

Tiger Woods' ability to hit a golf ball well is an example of which component of the Basic Behavioral Repertoire?

Skinner's analysis of language is generally accepted among psychologists as one of his greatest contributions.

An approach to personality measurement that is based on assessing the frequency of prototypical behaviors is the

Conflict occurs when a situation