Exam 5: States of Consciousness

You toss a newly purchased felt mouse across the floor;your cat chases it excitedly,clutches it in her paws and rolls around with it.Several tosses later,your cat yawns pointedly and settles herself for a nap.The change in your cat's behavior illustrates:

A(n)_____ reinforcer is a stimulus added to the environment,like getting paid to work,that specifically brings about an increase in a preceding response.

Nature is to nurture what _____ is to _____.

Dr.Simonelli is a practicing behavior analyst.What does she do?

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of punishment?

Which of the following reinforcers is INCORRECTLY categorized?

Explain classical conditioning with a suitable example.

Imagine that you graphed the cumulative number of bar-press responses over time of four rats,each reinforced on a different one of the four schedules of intermittent reinforcement.Each rat's behavior is graphed on a separate line.The line with the greatest slope should be that displaying the behavior of the rat reinforced on the _____ schedule.

_____ is a process in which,after a stimulus has been conditioned to produce a particular response,stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus produce the same response.

Which of the following promotions exemplifies the use of a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement?

Which of the following terms best expresses the relationship between stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination?

Observational learning is based in part on the activity of _____ neurons in the brain.

Suppose that you are asked to lead a workshop for parents on the use of punishment and reinforcement to manage child and adolescent behavior.What might you tell the parents regarding the appropriate and inappropriate use of punishment? Provide concrete examples to support your points.Suggest how parents might use punishment more effectively and how they might substitute reinforcement for punishment.Provide concrete examples to support your points.

_____ is the decrease in response to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

The term reward is synonymous with:

A(n)_____ reinforcer refers to the removal of an unpleasant stimulus,putting on a sweater when your cold for example,which leads to an increase in the probability that a preceding response will be repeated in the future.

How do the phenomena of latent and observational learning force a reconsideration of the view of learning offered by classical and operant conditioning theorists? Provide as thoughtful a response as you can.

_____ is a process which involves understanding someone's mental state.

Reinforcers that satisfy a biological need are called _____ reinforcers.

Dr.Arceneaux has developed several alternative plans to increase the number of online practice quizzes his students complete.Which plan below is incorrectly matched with the related schedule?