Psychology Quiz

A decrease in responsiveness to repeated presentations of a stimulus

• Extinction

• Habituation

• Punishment

• Extinguishing operation

Secondary or conditioned reinforcers acquire reinforcing capabilities

• Automatically

• By being paired with primary reinforcers

• Naturally

• When no primary reinforcers are available

Development of a conditioned reflex by pairing of a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus (CS). Also called secondary conditioning

• Classical conditioning

• Higher order conditioning

• Temporal conditioning

• Operant conditioning

A contingency of reinforcement in which some, but not all, occurrences of the behavior produce reinforced.

• fixed interval schedule

• continuous schedule of reinforcement

• concurrent schedule of reinforcement

• intermittent schedule of reinforcement

What is the advantage of using generalized conditioned reinforcers?

• They are negative reinforcers, which are more powerful than positive reinforcers

• They are less susceptible to satiation because they can be exchanged for a wide variety of other reinforcers

• None of these are advantages of generalized reinforcers

• They are easier for children to obtain than other forms of reinforcement

A stimulus-response relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits (e.g., bright light-pupil contraction).

• discriminated avoidance

• reflex

• operant

A stimulus-response relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits (e.g., bright light-pupil contraction).

• a. discriminated avoidance

• b. reinforcer

• c. reflex

• d. operant

The Premack Principle is useful for:

• a. Increasing high probability behaviors

• b. Increasing low probability behaviors

• c. Decreasing high probability behaviors

• d. Decreasing low probability behaviors

The amount of time it takes between an Sd and the start of a behavior:

• a. trials-to-criteria

• b. latency

• c. interresponse time

• d. duration

The length of elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the occurrence of a behavior:

• a. duration

• b. interval

• c. event

• d. latency