Question 1

Learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and remains unexpressed until reinforcement is provided is known as ____________________ learning.

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Question 2

Select a behavior that you would like to increase or decrease, and explain how you would set up a behavioral self-management program for this behavior.

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Question 3

Regarding the three basic tools to control simple learning, ____________________ suppresses responses.

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Question 4

Your friend tells you that "negative reinforcement is a type of punishment." Explain why your friend is VERY WRONG about these concepts by giving the definition and an example of each concept.

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Question 5

____________________ learning involves higher mental processes, such as understanding, knowing, or anticipating.

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Question 6

A teacher wants her students to study steadily across the semester.What kind of schedule of reinforcement could she put her quizzes on in order to produce a steady rate of responding, and explain why this schedule would be more successful than the schedule that most quizzes and tests are on?

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Question 7

Describe three ways in which conditioning techniques can be used to help people learn how to conserve energy resources.

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Question 8

Describe three problems that occur as punishment increases in severity.

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Question 9

A formal agreement stating behaviors to be changed and consequences that apply is known as a(n) ____________________.

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Question 10

Explain how advertisers often try to use higher order conditioning in their advertisements, and explain why some stores carry imitations of nationally-known products and place them right beside the nationally-known brands.

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Question 11

You have just broken up with your boyfriend.You are sitting at a table with friends when you see him enter the restaurant.He has not seen you yet, so you duck into the ladies room.You are exhibiting ____________________ learning.

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Question 12

The presentation of an aversive stimulus or the removal of a positive stimulus are both examples of ____________________.

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Question 13

Mitzi is extremely afraid of cats because she was badly scratched by one when she was younger.Abby is also afraid of cats, although she has never been scratched by one.However, Abby's mother is also afraid of cats.
(a) Explain the way that Mitzi developed her phobia, using the US, UR, CS, and CR.
(b) Explain the way Abby developed her phobia.
(c) Describe how both of these women could overcome their phobias.

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Question 14

The ____________________ principle states that things that you like to do can act as rewards.

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Question 15

Internal images or other mental representations of an area (maze, city, campus, etc.) that underlie an ability to choose alternative paths to the same goal refers to a(n) ____________________.

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Question 16

Explain the importance of antecedents and consequences for learning and which is more important in classical and in operant conditioning.

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Question 17

Explain the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers, including how secondary reinforcers develop, and give two examples of each type of reinforcer.

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Question 18

Five-year-old Elijah watches his favorite TV superhero pound the villain into the pavement and dreams of doing that to the bully at kindergarten.What factors could lead Elijah to model the TV character's aggression?

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Question 19

The first step in using "behavioral self-management" is to choose a(n) ____________________ behavior.

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Question 20

Many skills are learned by what psychologist ____________________ calls observational learning, or modeling.
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Quiz 7: Extension C: Conditioning and Learning