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What has occurred when there is a decrease in the likelihood or rate of a target response?


A) positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement
B) negative reinforcement
C) punishment
D) positive reinforcement

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The idea that for classical conditioning to occur, the presentation of the conditioned stimulus must tell you something about whether the unconditioned stimulus is going to occur is called ________ theory.


A) social learning
B) contingency
C) operant conditioning
D) autonomic conditioning

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The fact that a reward will increase the future likelihood of a response that produced it is known as:


A) the discrimination principle.
B) the law of practice.
C) the law of effect.
D) the Premack principle.

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Mark and Kathy take their 2-year-old son to the supermarket every Saturday. Each week, the same sequence of events unfolds: Their son screams, demanding that they buy him treats. Although they refuse to give in to his demands, he continues to scream. Finally, either Mark or Kathy gets in their son's face and yells at the top of their lungs "Shut up!" He stops screaming instantly. What operant conditioning concepts are illustrated in this story?


A) The parents are using negative reinforcement to increase their son's screaming.
B) The parents are in a very dysfunctional marriage; their child's screaming is his way of trying to get his parents to remain married.
C) The parents are using punishment to suppress the screaming; their use of punishment is negatively reinforced by the cessation of screaming.
D) Their son probably learned how to scream by observing his parents at home, and now he is reinforced on a variable-interval schedule of reinforcement.

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Shaping is achieved through:


A) discrimination training.
B) generalization.
C) higher-order conditioning.
D) successive approximations.

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In the experiment with Little Albert, the conditioned stimulus was ________.


A) Albert
B) the rat
C) the loud noise
D) the laboratory room

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The process of presenting the conditioned stimulus alone so often that the learner no longer associates it with the unconditioned stimulus and stops making the conditioned response is called ________.


A) extinction
B) generalization
C) spontaneous recovery
D) shaping

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Which of the following is an example of a primary reinforcer?


A) water
B) a thank-you letter
C) a smile from a loved one
D) money

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Most young children put their hands over their ears when they hear the loud boom of firecrackers at a Fourth of July festival, but at first pay scant attention to the person lighting the firecrackers. However, after just a few firecrackers have been exploded, some of the children put their hands over their ears as soon as they see the person approach the firecracker with a match! What is the conditioned stimulus?


A) the person lighting the firecrackers
B) the loud booming sound made by the firecrackers
C) the children putting their hands over their ears when they see the person about to light the firecrackers
D) the children putting their hands over their ears when the firecrackers explode

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The concept of latent learning was developed by ________.


A) Watson
B) Skinner
C) Thorndike
D) Tolman

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In classical conditioning, when a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits a response, the neutral stimulus eventually elicits a similar response or becomes a/an ________ stimulus.


A) conditioned
B) discriminative
C) higher-order
D) unconditioned

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Karawynn Long attempted to toilet train her cat. The principle of learning that was in operation was ________.


A) observational learning
B) classical conditioning
C) AMIM
D) shaping

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The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is called ________.


A) operant conditioning
B) classical conditioning
C) effective based learning
D) spontaneous recovery

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A person receiving a monthly salary is on a:


A) continuous reinforcement schedule.
B) fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement.
C) fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement.
D) variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement.

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You spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many different paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from your cousin whom you haven't seen for years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of ________.


A) spontaneous recovery
B) insight
C) formation of a cognitive map
D) unconscious trial-and-error imagery

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Perry works at a job where he is paid by commission. For every car Perry sells, he gets 10% of the profits. Perry is being reinforced on a ________ schedule.


A) fixed-ratio
B) fixed-interval
C) variable-ratio
D) variable-interval

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In order to get her 3rd grade students to memorize the poem written on the chalkboard, Mrs. Thyberg gives the students stickers for each poem they can recite from memory. After earning 5 stickers, a student gets to pick a prize out of the goody box. Mrs. Thyberg is using a(n) ________ to modify the children's behaviors.


A) token economy
B) applied behavior analysis
C) negative reinforcement
D) classical conditioning technique

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Which of the following is TRUE of research on insight?


A) Researchers have found that only human beings are capable of insight learning.
B) Researchers have found support for the existence of both human and animal insight learning.
C) Researchers have found that apes are capable of insight only after being taught this by humans.
D) Researchers have proven that all creatures, even one-celled organisms such as the amoeba, are capable of insight learning.

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Maricella works as a seamstress. Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts, she will receive $5. When done with the five shirts, she dumps them into a bin and gets paid. Her pattern of shirt completion is most likely to be ________.


A) rapid shirt completion with a short break after each five completed
B) long pauses after she receives the $5
C) a slow, steady rate of shirt-making without pauses
D) a fast, steady rate of shirt-making without pauses

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After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not ________ had occurred.


A) behavior modification
B) stimulus discrimination
C) extinction
D) stimulus generalization

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