Glutton for Punishment
The closeness in time between a response and a punisher.
What is contiguity?
Either helpful or critical, term used to describe immediate verbal or written information following a performance or task.
What is feedback?
Cited as perhaps the most effective reinforcer used in a school setting.
What is teacher attention (praise)?
False beliefs such as "everyone is out to get me" or "there are aliens inside my head."
What are delusions?
Reinforcement occurs upon the first response after every two minutes has passed.
What is a fixed interval, (FI2 min) schedule?
The theory of punishment that suggests that both classical and operant conditioning are involved.
What is two-process theory?
Early behavioral psychologist who studied the effect of feedback on blindfolded subjects' ability to draw a 4-inch line.
Who was (Edward) Thorndike?
Name given to Skinner's educational invention that helped students learn academic concepts through immediate positive reinforcement.
What is the teaching machine?
Any two of the four organic causes of delusions that were cited in the text.
What are schizophrenia, syphilis, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury?
Ra/(Ra+Rb) = ra/(ra+rb)
What is the Matching Law?
Physical restraint as an alternative to punishment.
What is response prevention?
Feedback combined with this positive reinforcer served to successfully improve truck drivers' job performance.
What is a cash bonus?
The teacher with whom researchers determined that approving appropriate behavior was more effective than scolding/criticizing inappropriate behavior.
Who was Mrs. A?
Regarding delusions - "the apparent ABSENCE of reinforcing consequences on some occasions may be a requirement for reinforcement to be available on other occasions."
What is Goldiamond's Paradox?
Compound schedule wherein two schedules (associated with different responses) are available simultaneously.
What is a concurrent schedule?
Skipping school or more seriously, suicide, are examples of this type of punishment side effect.
What is escape?
Daily positive feedback was studied by researchers among roofers as a means to reduce this extremely costly workplace "behavior."
What is accidents/injuries?
The names of the two students to whom Mrs. A was asked by researchers to direct particular attention.
Who were Cliff and Frank?
CIMT, a positive reinforcement-based treatment for stroke victims.
What is Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy?
The phenomenon wherein behavior that has been maintained on an intermittent schedule is more resistant to extinction.
What is the partial reinforcement effect (PRE)?
According to a BOX in the text, this behavior is "punishable by death."
What is texting while driving?
The effectiveness of positive feedback among 3 managers who supervised staff providing services to people with developmental disabilities was measured by this DV.
What is amount of overtime work?
Tuition is refunded at this private school in Seattle if operant conditioning processes don't double student learning rates.
What is Morningside?
This "seniors" game was used by clinical researchers to demonstrate operant rehabilitation of a previously paralyzed limb.
What is shuffleboard?
His formulation of the Matching Law is considered a milestone in the history of behavior science.
Who is (R.H.) Herrnstein?