Infamous Experiments
Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 experiment that sorted participants into guards and prisoners took place at which university?
Stanford
This structure connects the two brain hemispheres.
Corpus callosum
When the administration of a stimulus decreases the probability of a behavior recurring
Punishment
Who is considered the “father of behaviorism”?
BF Skinner
The target behavior which the intervention is designed to change
dependent variable
This professor led an infamous 1961 experiment where participants believed they were delivering electric shocks to a person, per directions of an authority figure.
Milgram
This lobe is responsible for visual perception.
Occipital lobe
Refers to the diminishing rates of a target behavior with the goal of completely extinguishing the behavior by discontinuing reinforcement.
Extinction
What famous experiment conducted by BF Skinner helped identify how negative reinforcement works?
Skinner Box
type of study in which the researcher implements one phase, introduces the second phase (reversal), and then reintroduces the conditions of the first phase
Reversal
Which researcher performed the Little Albert Study?
Watson
This brain structure is responsible for balance and kinesthetic sense, and contains more than half of the brain’s neurons.
Cerebellum
A functional assessment method involving direct observation of the antecedents, the target behavior, and the consequences of the behavior. Typically conducted in the natural environment where the target behavior occurs.
ABC observation
Who is the recently retired psychology professor renowned for his research in the functional analysis of problem behavior
Brian Iwata
measures the effect of the independent variable on two or more dependent variables by systematically introducing the treatment in delayed intervals
multiple baseline design
Seligman repeatedly shocked a dog without allowing it a route to escape. When given a chance to escape, it did not. What is this phenomenon called?
learned helplessness
Emotion is regulated through this system that includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, and thalamus.
Limbic system
Which functional assessment method involves manipulation of possible antecedents and or consequences of the problem behavior
Functional analysis
Conducted research by gathering stray animals from the community and putting them in a puzzle box and providing reinforcers as they made their way out, discovering the effects of reinforcement.
Thorndike
measures the effectiveness of two or more independent variables on a dependent variable by alternating each of the treatment conditions
alternating treatments design
This researcher provided baby rhesus monkeys with either wire mothers with food, or terry cloth mothers without food.
Harlow
Which area of the brain (named after a person) is responsible for the production of speech sounds?
Broca's area
A person has a rash that itches. If the person scratches the rash to relieve the itching, the scratching is maintained by _____ reinforcement (function + positive or negative)
Automatic, negative
This famous book is a science-fiction novel that embraces the proposition that the behavior of organisms is determined by environmental variables, and altering these variables can generate a sociocultural system that closely approximates a utopia.
Walden Two
uses stepwise adjustments in criteria for a target behavior in order to demonstrate increasing or decreasing effects due to the independent variable.
Changing criterion design