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Operant Conditioning and Cognitive Learning
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Operant Conditioning and Cognitive Learning
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1. Joey is refusing to complete his homework on time. After learning about Joey’s love of trains, Mrs. Anderson promises to reward Joey with a Thomas and Friends video upon completion of his next two homework assignments. Th is is an example of:
2. After several attempts at escape with no success, the electrically shocked dogs give up. At that moment the gates open and the dogs could simply walk out, but they don’t; instead they just sit there. Th is could most likely be explained by the concept of:
3. Salina receives a one-thousand-dollar bonus at her job after she sold the most cars this month. The one-thousand-dollar bonus is an example of a:
4. Punishment can best be defi ned as:
5. B. F. Skinner used his “Skinner Box” to work on a procedure in which the experimenter successfully reinforced behaviors, which led up to the desired behavior. Th is procedure is known as:
6. Harry Harlows’s goal was to get his monkeys to fi gure out that in any set of six trials, the food was always under the same box. Initially the monkeys chose the boxes randomly, sometimes fi nding food and sometimes not. However, after a while their behavior changed: after two consistent trials of fi nding the correct box, they continually went back to the same box. Harlow concluded that the monkeys had “learned how to learn.” According to Harlow the monkeys established:
7. Wolfgang Kohler conducted a series of experiments in which he placed a chimpanzee in a cage with a banana on the ground just out of his reach outside of the cage. After a period of inaction, the chimp suddenly grabbed the stick in the cage, poked it through the cage, and dragged the banana within reach. Th is type of learning is called:
8. Punishment can best be defi ned as:
9. Which of the following statements best exemplifi es the idea behind social cognitive learning?
10. Devyn watches a violent television show and then pretends to shoot her brother Tyler with a toy pistol. A psychologist would say that Devyn has learned this behavior through:
11. B. F. Skinner used his “Skinner Box” to work on a procedure in which the experimenter successfully reinforced behaviors, which led up to the desired behavior. Th is procedure is known as:
12. Which of the following scenarios is the best example of a cognitive map?
13. Joey is refusing to complete his homework on time. After learning about Joey’s love of trains, Mrs. Anderson promises to reward Joey with a Thomas and Friends video upon completion of his next two homework assignments. Th is is an example of:
14. Which of the following is the best example of a negative reinforcement?
15. Suspending a basketball player for committing a fl agrant foul is an example of:
16. Which of the following psychologists would argue that learning can take place when someone is watching another person and performs that behavior even when not reinforced?
17. A defendant is harassed and tortured until he confesses. Th is is an example of:
18. Which of the following scenarios is the best example of a cognitive map?
19. Suspending a basketball player for committing a fl agrant foul is an example of:
20. Latent learning can best be described as:
21. While taking his math placement exam, Spencer became stuck on one problem. With only fi ve minutes left, he suddenly arrived at the answer. This is an example of:
22. After overcoming her fear of the dentist, Jada fi nds out she needs a root canal. On her way to the dentist’s offi ce, her old fears and anxieties return and she begins to panic. Th is is an example of:
23. Latent learning can best be described as:
24. Th orndike’s law of effect neglects the inner drives or motives that make learners pursue the “satisfying state,” allowing learners to reach their goals. Which of the following psychologists would have agreed with that statement?
25. Th orndike’s law of effect neglects the inner drives or motives that make learners pursue the “satisfying state,” allowing learners to reach their goals. Which of the following psychologists would have agreed with that statement?