PSY 323 Final Exam Study Questions and Answers Top Graded 2024

To be a science, Psych needs to look at what's observable ____ of you. This was said by ____ ____ - observable; John Watson B.F. Skinner changed view of observable to an n= - 1 Relationship between one event and another is predicable - functional relations ____ behavior is only observable to the person behaving - covert ___ behavior is observable to others - overt _____ learning is reflexive - respondent ____ learning is an emitted response more impacted by consequences - operant What does ABC-FO stand for? - antecedent, behavior, consequence, and future occureance Can a dead man do the behavior? - Dead Man's test Using reinforcement to increase frequency desired or using punishment to decrease bx frequency of undesired. - Change Frequency of behavior This model focuses on diagnosis - medical model This model says that behavior is the problem - behavior model What does SOMA stand for? - Specific, observable, measurable, Action Recording: ____ occurs each time a person performs the behavior - continuous Recording: ____ occurs at different intervals - interval Total number of behavior up to that point - cumulative Strengthens the intervention's effect in AB designs; can be unethical to remove treatment - ABAB design Level of behavior before intervention - Baseline ____ Baseline-Treatment introduced at different times, different people, different settings etc. - multiple baseline This treatment is useful in comparing two treatments limitations. - Alternating treatments increases behavior - reinforcement ___ reinforcer- food, survival - primary ___ reinforcer- money to buy food - secondary ___ reinforcer occurs naturally in environment - natural ____ reinforcer arranged for purpose of modifying - contrived ____ reinforcer- behavior is followed by a desirable event or state - positive ____ reinforcer-behavior ends an undesirable event or state - negative What are the rules of reinforcement (3)? - 1. define behavior 2. select appropriate reinforcers 3. make reinforcement immediate and certain 4. monitor results The reinforcement of successive approximations of a target bx. - Shaping A sequence of related behavior, each of which provides the cue for the next and the last which produces a reinforcer - chaining What is a good example of chaining? - making a bed _____ chaining starts with the first step - forward ___ changing starts with the last step - backwards Withholding reinfrocement - extinction What are problems that can arise from extinction? - uncontrolled reinforcement, bootleg reinforcement, bx itself is reinforcing, it's a slow and hard process Ignore the kid and then they get LOUDER is an example of - extinction burst When used with extinction and reinforcement - Differential reinforcement incompatible- talk in class... you must raise hand to speak... you can't do both - DRI Kid hits... uses words instead of hitting - DRA When you don't want the behavior away completely. is called (DRL) - Low rates of responding ____ stimulus one stimulus at a time - single _____ stimulus two at a time - paired