PSYC 387 Final Prep Athabasca University Questions With
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prejudice is an example of a CER, which stands for _____
conditioned emotional response
Thomas parish and colleagues reduced the basis of white
American children toward Vietnamese by pairing images of
Vietnamese with ______
positive words
Thorndike complained that _______ evidence provided a
"supernormal psychology of animals."
anecdotal
Thorndike plotted the results of his puzzle box experiments as
graphs. The resulting curves show a _____ with succeeding
trials.
decrease in time
Who gave Skinner's experimental chamber the name "Skinner
box"?
clark hull
Mary's grandmother, Pearl, is from the Old Country. Although
she knows some English, she continues to speak her native
tongue. Pearl can't go anywhere without a member of the family
because she can't communicate with people about prices,
,directions, bus routes, etc. Pearl's resistance to learning English
is most likely the result of ______.
the benefits she receives for not speaking English
positive reinforcement is sometimes called
reward learning
Alan Neuringer demonstrated that with reinforcement, _____
could learn to behave randomly.
pigeons
Donald Zimmerman found that a buzzer became a positive
reinforcer after it was repeatedly paired with
water
an action that improves the effectiveness of a reinforcer is called
a(n)
motivating operation
clark hull's explanation of reinforcement assumes that reinforces
reduce a drive
Sylvia believes that the reinforcement properties of an event
depend on the extent to which it provides access to high
probability behavior. Sylvia is most likely an advocate of
_______ theory.
relative value theory
the distinctive characteristics of the Kidman avoidance
procedure is that
,the aversive event is not signalled
the first step in chaining is to break the task down into its
component elements. this procedure is called
task analysis
shaping is the reinforcement of successive
approximations of a desired behaviour
the classic experiments on insightful problem solving were done
with chimpanzees by
Wolfgang kohler
insightful problem solving is best viewed as an example of
operant learning
in her work with proposes, Karen Pryor gradually realized that
what she had to do to get novel behaviour from the animals was
to
reinforce novel behaviour
probably the best way to increase the creativity of stories in an
English class is to
praise particularly original stories
Koichi Ono got superstitious behavior in university students by
providing points noncontingently at regular intervals. One
student ended up repeatedly ______.
jumping to touch the ceiling
one idea for preventing learned helplessness is _____ training
, immunization
reprimands, restraints, captivity, and electrical shocks can be
reinforcers
true
negative reinforcement and punishment are synonyms
false
reinforcement reduces creativity because creativity requires new
forms of behaviour
false
negative reinforcement is sometimes called _______ learning
escape- avoidance
_____ theory assumes that a behaviour becomes reinforcing
when we are prevented from performing it as often as we
normally would
response-deprivation
the solution to a problem is behaviour that produces _______
reinforcement
your text describes various tips for shaping effectively. describe
as many of these tips as you can.
1. reinforce the small steps.
-don't require too much of the subject at once
2. provide immediate reinforcement
-the instant the desired approximation occurs, the behaviour
needs to be reinforced as quickly as possible
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prejudice is an example of a CER, which stands for _____
conditioned emotional response
Thomas parish and colleagues reduced the basis of white
American children toward Vietnamese by pairing images of
Vietnamese with ______
positive words
Thorndike complained that _______ evidence provided a
"supernormal psychology of animals."
anecdotal
Thorndike plotted the results of his puzzle box experiments as
graphs. The resulting curves show a _____ with succeeding
trials.
decrease in time
Who gave Skinner's experimental chamber the name "Skinner
box"?
clark hull
Mary's grandmother, Pearl, is from the Old Country. Although
she knows some English, she continues to speak her native
tongue. Pearl can't go anywhere without a member of the family
because she can't communicate with people about prices,
,directions, bus routes, etc. Pearl's resistance to learning English
is most likely the result of ______.
the benefits she receives for not speaking English
positive reinforcement is sometimes called
reward learning
Alan Neuringer demonstrated that with reinforcement, _____
could learn to behave randomly.
pigeons
Donald Zimmerman found that a buzzer became a positive
reinforcer after it was repeatedly paired with
water
an action that improves the effectiveness of a reinforcer is called
a(n)
motivating operation
clark hull's explanation of reinforcement assumes that reinforces
reduce a drive
Sylvia believes that the reinforcement properties of an event
depend on the extent to which it provides access to high
probability behavior. Sylvia is most likely an advocate of
_______ theory.
relative value theory
the distinctive characteristics of the Kidman avoidance
procedure is that
,the aversive event is not signalled
the first step in chaining is to break the task down into its
component elements. this procedure is called
task analysis
shaping is the reinforcement of successive
approximations of a desired behaviour
the classic experiments on insightful problem solving were done
with chimpanzees by
Wolfgang kohler
insightful problem solving is best viewed as an example of
operant learning
in her work with proposes, Karen Pryor gradually realized that
what she had to do to get novel behaviour from the animals was
to
reinforce novel behaviour
probably the best way to increase the creativity of stories in an
English class is to
praise particularly original stories
Koichi Ono got superstitious behavior in university students by
providing points noncontingently at regular intervals. One
student ended up repeatedly ______.
jumping to touch the ceiling
one idea for preventing learned helplessness is _____ training
, immunization
reprimands, restraints, captivity, and electrical shocks can be
reinforcers
true
negative reinforcement and punishment are synonyms
false
reinforcement reduces creativity because creativity requires new
forms of behaviour
false
negative reinforcement is sometimes called _______ learning
escape- avoidance
_____ theory assumes that a behaviour becomes reinforcing
when we are prevented from performing it as often as we
normally would
response-deprivation
the solution to a problem is behaviour that produces _______
reinforcement
your text describes various tips for shaping effectively. describe
as many of these tips as you can.
1. reinforce the small steps.
-don't require too much of the subject at once
2. provide immediate reinforcement
-the instant the desired approximation occurs, the behaviour
needs to be reinforced as quickly as possible
