Chapter 5: Reinforcement, PSYC 387 Learning:
Unit 3 (Chapters 5-6), Psych 387 Unit 3 AC
Questions With Complete Solutions
1. E. L. Thorndike's studies of learning started as an attempt to understand
_______.
a. operant conditioning
b. the psychic reflex
c. animal intelligence
d. maze learning - Answer-animal intelligence
Thorndike complained that _______ evidence provided a "supernormal
psychology of animals."
a. anecdotal
b. case study
c. informal experimental
d. intuitive - Answer-Anecdotal
In one of Thorndike's puzzle boxes, a door would fall open when a cat stepped on
a treadle, thus allowing the cat to reach food outside the box. Eventually the cat
would step on the treadle as soon as it was put into the box. Thorndike concluded
that ________.
a. the reasoning ability of cats is quite remarkable
b. treadle stepping increased because it had a "satisfying effect"
,c. the treadle is a CS for stepping
d. learning meant connecting the treadle with freedom and food - Answer-treadle
stepping increased because it had a "satisfying effect"
. The number of operant procedures indicated in the contingency square is
______.
a. two
b. four
c. six
d. nine - Answer-four
Positive reinforcement is sometimes called _______.
a. escape training
b. positive training
c. satisfier training
d. reward learning - Answer-reward learning
Negative reinforcement is also called _______.
a. punishment
b. aversive training
c. escape-avoidance training
d. reward training - Answer-escape-avoidance training
, Alan Neuringer demonstrated that with reinforcement, _____ could learn to
behave randomly.
a. preschoolers
b. cats
c. rats
d. pigeons - Answer-pigeons
Skinner describes some of his most important research in _______.
a. Verbal Behavior
b. The Behavior of Organisms
c. Particulars of My Life
d. Animal Intelligence - Answer-The Behavior of Organisms
. The author of your text calls Skinner the ______.
a. Newton of psychology
b. Thorndike of free operant work
c. discoverer of reinforcement
d. Darwin of behavior science - Answer-Darwin of behavior science
The opposite of a conditioned reinforcer is a ______.
a. tertiary reinforcer
b. secondary reinforcer
c. primary reinforcer
d. generalized reinforcer - Answer-primary reinforcer
Unit 3 (Chapters 5-6), Psych 387 Unit 3 AC
Questions With Complete Solutions
1. E. L. Thorndike's studies of learning started as an attempt to understand
_______.
a. operant conditioning
b. the psychic reflex
c. animal intelligence
d. maze learning - Answer-animal intelligence
Thorndike complained that _______ evidence provided a "supernormal
psychology of animals."
a. anecdotal
b. case study
c. informal experimental
d. intuitive - Answer-Anecdotal
In one of Thorndike's puzzle boxes, a door would fall open when a cat stepped on
a treadle, thus allowing the cat to reach food outside the box. Eventually the cat
would step on the treadle as soon as it was put into the box. Thorndike concluded
that ________.
a. the reasoning ability of cats is quite remarkable
b. treadle stepping increased because it had a "satisfying effect"
,c. the treadle is a CS for stepping
d. learning meant connecting the treadle with freedom and food - Answer-treadle
stepping increased because it had a "satisfying effect"
. The number of operant procedures indicated in the contingency square is
______.
a. two
b. four
c. six
d. nine - Answer-four
Positive reinforcement is sometimes called _______.
a. escape training
b. positive training
c. satisfier training
d. reward learning - Answer-reward learning
Negative reinforcement is also called _______.
a. punishment
b. aversive training
c. escape-avoidance training
d. reward training - Answer-escape-avoidance training
, Alan Neuringer demonstrated that with reinforcement, _____ could learn to
behave randomly.
a. preschoolers
b. cats
c. rats
d. pigeons - Answer-pigeons
Skinner describes some of his most important research in _______.
a. Verbal Behavior
b. The Behavior of Organisms
c. Particulars of My Life
d. Animal Intelligence - Answer-The Behavior of Organisms
. The author of your text calls Skinner the ______.
a. Newton of psychology
b. Thorndike of free operant work
c. discoverer of reinforcement
d. Darwin of behavior science - Answer-Darwin of behavior science
The opposite of a conditioned reinforcer is a ______.
a. tertiary reinforcer
b. secondary reinforcer
c. primary reinforcer
d. generalized reinforcer - Answer-primary reinforcer
