Chapter 5

media violence contributes to aggression among people

In the context of the effects of media violence, most organizations of health professionals agree that:

model

In the terminology of observational learning, a person who engages in a response that is imitated is a__________

People choose whether or not to imitate aggressive behaviors they observe

Which of the following is a view of cognitive psychologists?

They increase the probability that a behavior will occur when they are removed.

Which of the following is true of negative reinforcers?

Moderating variables such as social connectedness figure into the effects of media violence.

Which of the following statements is true in the context of the effects of violent video games?

It is involuntary, automatic learning

Which of the following statements is true of classical conditioning?

Shaping

__________is a procedure for teaching complex behaviors that at first reinforces approximations of the target behavior.

Operant conditioning

__________is defined as a simple form of learning in which an organism learns to engage in certain behavior because of the effects of that behavior

Observational learning

__________is the acquisition of knowledge and skills by watching others rather than by means of direct experience.

Extinction

__________is the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur.

counterconditioning

Brandon had a fear of dogs. To extinguish this fear, his mother baked him his favorite cake and gradually brought a dog closer to him while he ate the cake. In this scenario, Brandon's mother used__________to cure his fear.

They can rapidly suppress undesirable behavior.

Identify a true statement about punishments.

They motivate organisms to avoid harmful foods

Identify a true statement about taste aversions.

random amount of time has passed

In a variable-interval schedule, reinforcement is provided after a _____

It involves continuous exposure to fear-evoking stimuli

In the context of behavior therapy methods, which of the following statements is true of flooding?

conditioned response

In the context of classical conditioning, a learned reaction to a learned stimulus is known as a(n)__________

reflex

In the context of classical conditioning, the term__________is defined as a simple unlearned response to a stimulus.

mirror neurons

In the context of observational learning,__________allow us to anticipate other people's intentions when they reach for things.

reinforcement

In the context of operant conditioning,__________is the act of following a response with a stimulus that increases the frequency of the response.

fixed-interval schedule

Max is a waiter at a coffee shop. He gets paid $100 every day at 9 p.m. regardless of the number of customers he serves during the day. In this scenario, Max's payment is based on the _____.