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PSY320 Exam 2 Practice Questions and Answers Training rats to run a maze for food is an instrumental paradigm because the researcher is: A. Constraining the opportunity to respond to reinforcement B. Presenting a CS without a UCS C. Unable to observe what is taking place in the maze D. Condit...

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PSY320 Exam 2 Practice Questions and

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Training rats to run a maze for food is an instrumental paradigm because the researcher is:


A. Constraining the opportunity to respond to reinforcement


B. Presenting a CS without a UCS


C. Unable to observe what is taking place in the maze


D. Conditioning the rats in an unusual environment - ANSWER✔✔-A. Constraining the opportunity to

respond to reinforcement


According to Skinner, a positive reinforcer is an event occurring after a response that:


A. Decreases the probability of the response occurring


B. Produces a state of excitation


C. Increases the probability of the response occurring


D. Relieves pain or discomfort - ANSWER✔✔-C. Increases the probability of the response occurring



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Giving reinforcement for successive approximation of a desired response defines:


A. Discrimination


B. Compound schedules


C. Shaping


D. Contingency management - ANSWER✔✔-C. Shaping


On a fixed interval schedule:


A. The animal waits patiently next to the food delivery site


B. The animal must respond a specified number of times in order to receive food


C. The animal always receives food after a fixed amount of time, regardless of if it responds


D. The animal gradually increases responding behavior as the time for reinforcement availability

approaches - ANSWER✔✔-D. The animal gradually increases responding behavior as the time for

reinforcement availability approaches


People who play slot machines at casinos are reinforced on a _____________ schedule.


A. Fixed ratio


B. Variable ratio


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C. Fixed interval


D. Variable interval - ANSWER✔✔-B. Variable ratio


When extinction is introduced in operant conditioning, the rate of behavior:


A. Falls off dramatically immediately


B. First increases then decreases


C. Will decline to 0 and now show spontaneous recovery


D. Evidences a negative, then positive contrast effect - ANSWER✔✔-B. First decreases, then increases


Which of the following DOES NOT apply to the pattern of responding on a fixed ratio schedule?


A. Produces a consistent rate of behavior


B. Rate of responding increases as the schedule increases


C. The post-reinforcement pause decreases as schedule increases


D. There is usually a pause following the delivery of reinforcement - ANSWER✔✔-C. The post-

reinforcement pause decreases as schedule increases


A negative reinforcer is an event:


A. Given after a response that decreases the probability of the response occurring

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B. Given after a response that increases the probability of the response occurring


C. Taken away after a response that decreases the probability of the response occurring


D. Taken away after a response that increases the probability of the response occurring - ANSWER✔✔-D.

Taken away after a response that increases the probability of the response occurring


According to Skinner, a secondary reinforcer is an event:


A. That results from learning


B. That produces pleasure


C. The reduces a drive


D. That is inherently reinforcing - ANSWER✔✔-A. That results from learning


The term ___________ has replaced the term behavior modification.


A. Competency management


B. Complacency management


C. Contigency management


D. Continuous management - ANSWER✔✔-C. Contigency management




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