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

Non-aggressive responses to frustration can be learned.

If a neurotic person compulsively washes his or her hands every time he or she thinks about disease, then thinking about disease is a(n)

Secondary reinforcers are innate.

Dollard and Miller explained aggression with their __________ hypothesis.

Which of the following is an example of how personality is measured, from a behavioral perspective?

Describe a problem behavior that could be treated using behavior modification.therapy. Explain why behavior modification would be effective.

The act-frequency approach is designed to measure __________ from a behavioral perspective.

By definition, "frustration" occurs when

A learning dilemma occurs if the dominant response does not bring about drive reduction.

Dollard and Miller thought suppression was an effective and productive method for coping with unwanted thoughts.

Systematic application of learning principles in therapy is called

Dollard and Miller disagreed with Freud's claim that childhood conflicts are important to personality development.

Joe keeps trying and trying to be accepted by a particular group of popular classmates. Jim tried, but was rejected, so he stopped trying. Discuss how these differences in persistence may be explained in terms of schedules of reinforcement.

In the third stage of child development, according to Dollard and Miller, a child is often punished for

Skinner wrote a novel entitled

Suppression has been found to be linked with greater sympathetic nervous system arousal

What happened to participants in Wegner's study when they were told not to think about a white bear?

Everyone has the same basic behavioral repertoires.

Discuss the "white bear" research on suppression and the rebound effect.

According to Dollard and Miller, learning is influenced by rewards.