Infamous Experiments
A 1971 study by this professor at Stanford sorted participants into guards and prisoners
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
This structure connects the two brain hemispheres.
This term means withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced response
What is extinction?
This professor has published multiple studies related to smoking cessation programs using behavior analytic tools
Who is Jesse Dallery?
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?
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?
This lobe is responsible for visual perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
This term refers to when behavior is weakened by the addition or removal of a stimulus
This professor researches, among many things, cultural responsiveness in behavioral science
Who is Corina Jimenez-Gomez?
An example of this reinforcement schedule is gambling using a slot machine
Which researcher performed the Little Albert Study?
Who is Watson?
This brain structure is responsible for balance and kinesthetic sense, and contains more than half of the brain’s neurons.
What is the cerebellum?
This is a complex behavior consisting of many component behaviors that occur together in a sequence
What is a behavior chain?
This professor's research includes, among other things, behavioral safety in organizations
Who is Nicole Gravina?
A response-independent or time-based delivery of stimuli with known reinforcing properties
What is non-contingent reinforcement?
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?
Emotion is regulated through this system that includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, and thalamus.
What is the limbic system?
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?
This professor recently found that 9 out of 10 dogs prefer food to toys
Who is Nicole Dorey?
The visual pattern that is displayed from a fixed-ratio schedule when plotted on a graph
Staircase/Step Pattern
This researcher provided baby rhesus monkeys with either wire mothers with food, or terry cloth mothers without food.
Who is Harlow?
Which area of the brain (named after a person) is responsible for the production of speech sounds?
What is Broca's area?
These are the four components of Behavioral Skills Training (BST)
What are Instructions, Modeling, Rehearsal, Feedback?
This professor is the leading authority on behavioral interventions for pediatric feeding disorders
Who is Vivian Ibanez?
The schedule of reinforcement that frequently results in a scalloped response pattern
What is a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement?