Chapter 5 practice quiz
Why might violent video games encourage less aggressive behavior than violent television shows?
Unlike television shows, video games allow the user to interact directly with peers.
A prisoner shouts abuse at the night guard but behaves perfectly during the day guard's shift. This is an example of
discriminative stimulation
A postive punishment _______, while a negative reinforcement
introduces an irritant to decrease a behavior; removes something unpleasant to increase behavior.
Learned helplessness can occur when a subject
is punished repeatedly without recourse
Token economies use operant conditioning to affect human behavior by
providing predictable reinforcements for desirable actions
When a conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without an unconditioned stimulus, a subject will
show less response until given a break, and will then respond again
Classical conditioning is a learning process in which
A subject associates an existing stimulus with a new stimulus
Which of the following is most likely to be an effective model for an adolescent girl?
A debate team captain who attends a prestigious college
How do positive and negative reinforcement differ?
A positive reinforcement adds a reward, while negative reinforcement removes a punishment
Which of the following scenarios demonstrates latent learning?
After years of riding in the back seat, a newly licensed driver navigates to school alone.
How can multitasking affect the quality of online learning?
By splitting attention between educational material and advertisements.
John Watson's experiment with Little Albert demonstrated his theory of behaviorism by
Showing that emotional responses could be conditioned
A solution reached by insight is
easy to transfer new problems
How did Garcia and Koelling's work on taste aversion change our understanding of classical conditioning?
They demonstrated that inherent traits can extend pairing intervals
Robert Rescorla's experiments showed that for classical conditioning to occur
A conditioned stimulus must reliably predict a reinforcement
