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| A response is learned most rapidly and is most ressistant to extinction if it is aquired through continuous reinforcement follwed by what reinforcement schedule? |
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| Increasing productivity of workers, students, and athletes has been attributed to what type of conditioning? |
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| an operant condtioning prodedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer apporximations of a desired goal. |
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| what did Edward Thorndike's experiements with cage cats in a puzzle box illustrate? |
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| Rewarded behavior is likely to occur. |
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| what is "learned helplessness"? |
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| the hopelessness and passive resigntion an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. |
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| withdrawal of a pleasant stimulus is what? |
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| introduction of a pleasant stimulus is what? |
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| withdrawal of a negative stimulus is what? |
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| being able to anticipate that certain behavior leads to certain consequences is an example of what? |
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| if a teacher announces pop quizes will be an unpredictable part of a course, she is using what reinforcement schdule? |
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| variable-interval schdule |
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| when is punishment most successful or effective in eliminating a behavior? |
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| when punishment is combined with reinforcement. |
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| pavlov was frustrated when his dogs began salivation when he or his research assistants entered teh laboratory. he called this salivation "psychic secretions" but in actuality, what was the salivation? |
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| if one develops a fear of flying after being in a plane crash and then gets over this fear, one has experienced ________. |
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| its easier to train a pigeon to peck a dish for a food reward than to flap its wings for a food reward. why? |
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| because its a food dish is more related to getting food then flapping its wings. |
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| what is overjustification? |
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| promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do. the person may now see the reward as the motivation for the task and not their interest for the task |
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| what can happen with repeated spankings? |
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| child will do bad behavior in a safe place and will ear the person that spanked them. |
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| when little albert began to fear white bunny rabbits or white furry blankets is illustrated what situation? |
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| how might you teach a dog certain tricks quickly? |
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| if you donate money to your church every sunday your are operation on what type of reinforcement schedule? |
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