Conditioning
In classical conditioning, when a conditioned response returns awhile after the last extinction trial, ____ has occurred.
spontaneous recovery
Greg has been experiencing trouble disciplining his 5-year-old daughter. He has found that giving her candy at church has increased good behavior at church. What would candy be?
positive reinforcer
Tina finds that if she gives her son a piece of candy every time he uses the toilet, he uses the toilet more often. Tina is using:
Positive Reinforcement
Amy likes tuna, but one day she eats a tuna sandwich, and later that day she discovers she has an awful stomach virus. After she is well, she sees a can of tuna at the store and it causes her to cringe. The can of tuna in the store is the ____.
Conditioned Stimulus
A Behaviorist would most likely use ____ as a method for gathering information about behavior.
Observation
In classical conditioning, it is important that the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus are paired together close in time or space. This would mean that there is ____.
contiguity
A mouse learns that pushing a button produces a piece of food, so the mouse increases the amount that it pushes the button. This is an example of:
Operant Conditioning
Jane is trying to train her parrot. She is trying to get him to stop making so much noise at night. When he makes noise, she puts a blanket over his cage. The blanket has not helped to decrease the amount of noise that the bird was making. In this case, Jane was HOPING that the blanket would work as a:
Punisher
Mark doesn't like to nag his son about parking in the street, and his son doesn't like being nagged about his parking, but Mark's nagging does lead his son to move where he has parked, so Mark continues this pattern of nagging. Mark and his son are caught in a:
Behavior Trap
Sara is a behavior analyst. Which of the following would you believe to be true?
A Sara puts an emphasis on all aspects of psychological functioning
B Sara puts an emphasis on how the environment and behavior influence each other
C Sara puts an emphasis on thinking, feeling, and motivation
D All of the above
B
A male chimpanzee, Harry, experiences a rise in blood pressure when another male chimpanzee shows signs of aggression. When researchers accompanied these signs of aggression with the smell of roses, Harry eventually experienced this rise in blood pressure when exposed to the smell of roses even when no other chimpanzees were present. In this scenario, the roses have become a(n):
Conditioned Response
Maria is trying to get her daughter to behave better when family is visiting. She has found that removing chores leads to her being more positive with her family. What is the removal of chores in this situation?
negative reinforcer
Antonio wanted to start going to the gym more often. He decided that he would reward himself for every fifth gym visit by canceling the weekly dinner he goes to with his in-laws. Removing the unpleasant in-law experience is being used as:
Negative Reinforcer
If there is a high degree of contiguity when a shock is presented with the sound of a bell, this means that the shock and bell were performed:
Close together in time and space
Greg believes that behavior that is not observable should not be considered, while Jim believes that behavior that can't be observed should be examined the same way as observable behavior. Which of them is a behaviorist and which is a behavior analysis?
Greg is a behaviorist and Jim is a behavior analyst
A male chimpanzee, Harry, experiences a rise in blood pressure when another male chimpanzee shows signs of aggression. When researchers accompanied these signs of aggression with the smell of roses, Harry eventually experienced this rise in blood pressure when exposed to the smell of roses even when no other chimpanzees were present. This is an example of:
Classical Conditioning
Heather has been spanking her son for several years now. She has noticed that it does not appear to be as effective as it was earlier. As a result of the frequency of this punisher, which of the following is likely?
A he understands that he deserves the punisher
B he expects that the punisher will stop
C he has become more sensitive to the punisher
D he has become less sensitive to the punisher
D
Tina is trying to complain less. Every time she complains, she makes herself stand in a corner for ten seconds. She is using standing in a corner as:
Punisher
Generalization is occurring when:
the CR is observed in the presence of stimuli that were not present during training
If the Conditioned Stimulus is presented enough times without the Unconditioned Stimulus, the association between the ______ and the ______ will be extinguished.
Conditioned Stimulus; Unconditioned Stimulus
The more salient the ___, the more quickly the stimulus will become associated with the US.
NS
While classical conditioning relies on ______, operant conditioning is focused on ______ .
A Reliant stimuli; discriminative stimuli.
B Discriminative stimuli; reliant stimuli.
C The environment after the behavior; the environment before the behavior.
D The environment before the behavior; the environment after the behavior.
D
George has found that giving his son an extra chore when his son walks through the house in muddy shoes reduces the amount of times he does this. Adding a chore is an example of what in this situation?
positive punisher
Danielle's dog Lola likes to wake her up by pawing at her face so that she will feed her in the morning. Danielle has been getting up as a result and feeding her for the last several years. Finally, she decides that she deserves to sleep in past 5 am. She decides to stop feeding Lola when she does this. For the next several mornings Lola paws and paws and paws at her face trying to get her attention. What could be happening?
Extinction Burst
When an organism shows a Conditioned Response to some stimuli that was similar, but not identical, to the Conditioned Stimulus, you can say that ____ has occurred.
Generalization