Superstitious behavior illustrates that... - ✔✔reinforcement is effective even if it isn't related to the
behavior that follows
What schedules are most likely in the natural environment - ✔✔Variable schedules
Matching law - ✔✔Quantitative relationship between rates of response and rates of reinforcement in
concurrent schedules
Long-term consequences are - ✔✔delayed
Speed and effectiveness of punishment - ✔✔The more delayed the punishment, the less effective it is
Belushi effect of drug tolerance - ✔✔Removal of the conditioned stimulus (the environment) allowed the
drug to effect him differently, causing overdose
The US Office of Technology assessments estimates that __ of modern medical treatments in common
use have been proved as effective - ✔✔1/5
Hart & Risley study - ✔✔Conducted to look for the cause of the disparity in linguistic progress among
children from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being
spoken to them than a working class child - ✔✔1/2
, Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being
spoken to them than a professional class child - ✔✔1/3
Should children be exposed to natural negative consequences - ✔✔Yes
What makes praise so effective - ✔✔Being specific, immediate, and warranted - not generic
Traditional viewpoints of mental health - ✔✔Involve mentalistic and unobservable causes
Why is talk therapy useful - ✔✔We all want positive social reinforcement
Strategty of community policing from an ABA standpoint - ✔✔Prejudice and stereotypes are nothing but
overgeneralization
Philosophy of the science of human behavior - ✔✔Behaviorism
What do we rely on as a philosophy of human behavior - ✔✔Structuralism
Normand 2009 about being skeptical - ✔✔Examine the available evidence before making a decision
What do we need to consider to evaluate empirical evidence? - ✔✔Ensure that IOA has been
demonstrated and experimental control was established
Why does conditioning only go so far to explain human behavior? - ✔✔Adds countless stimuli but no
new responses
Ontogeny - ✔✔Individual
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