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1
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John Nevin has suggested that reinforcement gives behaviour

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Momentum

2
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Shaping is the reinforcement of successive

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Approximations of a desired behaviour

3
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The number of operant procedures indicated in the contingency square is

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Four

4
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Resurgence may help account for

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Regression

5
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All of the following are useful tips for shaping behaviour except:

Reinforcing small steps, immediate reinforcement, providing small reinforcers, avoiding setting goals

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Avoiding setting goals

6
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The level of deprivation is less important when the reinforcer used is a _____ reinforcer

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Secondary

7
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Money is a good example of this type of reinforcer

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Generalized

8
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Operant learning is also referred to as

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Instrumental learning

9
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Negative reinforcement is also called

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Escape training

10
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Thorndike complained that this type of evidence provided a “ supernormal psychology of animals”

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Anecdotal

11
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Operant learning is sometimes called _______ learning

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Instrumental

12
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______ gave Skinners experimental chamber the name skinner box

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Clark Hull

13
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Mary’s grandmother, Pearl, is from Poland. Although she knows some English, she continues to speak your native tongue. Pearl can’t go anywhere without a member of the family because she can’t communicate with people about prices, directions, bus routes, etc. Pearls resistance to learning English is most likely the result of

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The benefits she receives for not speaking English

14
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True or false: a general assumption of behavioural research is that any feature of a behaviour may be strengthened by reinforcement, so long as reinforcement can be made contingent on that feature

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True

15
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True or false: studies demonstrate that operant learning is as effective with involuntary behavior, such as the salivary reflex, as it is with voluntary behaviour

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False

16
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True or false: negative reinforcement increases the strength of a behavior

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True

17
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True or false: to say that a reinforcer increases the strength of a behaviour means only that it has certain measurable effects on the behaviour

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True

18
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Another term for operant is instrumental, true or false?

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True

19
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True or false: the more effort a behaviour requires, the fewer times the behaviour will be performed during extinction

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True

20
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True or false: positive reinforcement increases the strength of a behaviour

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True

21
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True or false: reprimands, restraint, captivity, and electric shocks can be reinforcers

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True

22
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Secondary reinforcers are also called ________ reinforcers

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Conditioned