Infamous Experiments
Neuroanatomy
Behavior Analysis Terms
UF Behavior Analysts
Reinforcement Schedules
100

A 1971 study by this professor at Stanford sorted participants into guards and prisoners

Who is Phillip Zimbardo?

100

This structure connects the two brain hemispheres.

What is the corpus callossum? 
100

This term means withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced response 

What is extinction?

100

This professor has published multiple studies related to smoking cessation programs using behavior analytic tools

Who is Jesse Dallery?

100

The schedule of reinforcement that requires a specific number of responses to occur before the delivery of a reinforcer

 What is a fixed-ratio schedule?

200

This professor led an infamous 1961 experiment where participants believed they were delivering electric shocks to a person, per directions of an authority figure.

Who is Milgram?

200

This lobe is responsible for visual perception.

What is the occipital lobe?

200

This term refers to when behavior is weakened by the addition or removal of a stimulus 

What is punishment?
200

This professor researches, among many things, cultural responsiveness in behavioral science

Who is Corina Jimenez-Gomez?

200

An example of this reinforcement schedule is gambling using a slot machine

What is a variable-ratio schedule?
300

Which researcher performed the Little Albert Study?

Who is Watson?

300

This brain structure is responsible for balance and kinesthetic sense, and contains more than half of the brain’s neurons.

What is the cerebellum?

300

This is a complex behavior consisting of many component behaviors that occur together in a sequence 

What is a behavior chain?

300

This professor's research includes, among other things, behavioral safety in organizations

Who is Nicole Gravina?

300

A response-independent or time-based delivery of stimuli with known reinforcing properties

What is non-contingent reinforcement?

400

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?

What is learned helplessness?

400

Emotion is regulated through this system that includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, and thalamus.

What is the limbic system?

400

This is the process of analyzing a set of connected behaviors by breaking it down into its individual stimulus-response components 

What is a task analysis?

400

This professor recently found that 9 out of 10 dogs prefer food to toys  

Who is Nicole Dorey?

400

The visual pattern that is displayed from a fixed-ratio schedule when plotted on a graph

Staircase/Step Pattern

500

This researcher provided baby rhesus monkeys with either wire mothers with food, or terry cloth mothers without food.

Who is Harlow?

500

Which area of the brain (named after a person) is responsible for the production of speech sounds?

What is Broca's area?

500

These are the four components of Behavioral Skills Training (BST) 

What are Instructions, Modeling, Rehearsal, Feedback?

500

This professor is the leading authority on behavioral interventions for pediatric feeding disorders

Who is Vivian Ibanez?

500

The schedule of reinforcement that frequently results in a scalloped response pattern

What is a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement?

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