A03 Describe & Explain Behavior From The Perspective of Radical Behaviorism Part 3

Question 1

What are private events?

Answer 1

All are private events, thoughts, feeling , attitudes, emotions ; that are unobservable to people other than the person experiencing it .

Question 2

One objection to mentalistic explanations of behavior is that

Answer 2

They terminate inquiry into the variables of which behavior is a function

Question 3

A child says “please may I have some candy” because

Answer 3

The behavior of asking nicely often produces candy

Question 4

Select the best behavioral description. It is likely that the child exhibits stereotypic behavior because

Answer 4

It produces automatic reinforcement

Question 5

A characteristic of mentalism is that it

Answer 5

Asserts that behavior is merely an expression of internal states

Question 6

A characteristic of mentalism is that it

Answer 6

psychic, spirtual, subjective and hypotectical
All the above

Question 7

Which is not a private event?

Answer 7

Someone whispering in your ear so that only you and he could hear

Question 8

Which is not a private event?

Answer 8

A virus with no symptoms is neither a private nor public events.

Question 9

Which is not a private event?

Answer 9

All are private events

Question 10

A private event

Answer 10

May include verbal behavior to oneself (thinking) ( singing to themself.

Question 11

Which is not a private event?

Answer 11

Getting hit with a baseball

Question 12

After working late, a woman was waiting at the elevator to go home. The door opened and there was a rough looking man on the elevator. She said “Oh, I forgot my paper,” and turned away. Which is not a mentalistic explanation of her behavior?

Answer 12

She had learned a rule that a person’s appearance is an indicator of probably behavior and she turned away from the man as a function of this rule.

Question 13

A private event

Answer 13

All the above

Question 14

One objection to mentalistic explanations of behavior is that

Answer 14

All the above

Question 15

Mentalism holds that the real cause of behavior

Answer 15

Is the inner entity or hypothetical construct

Question 16

Which is not a private event?

Answer 16

A very sick person saying to you “I’m burning up inside”

Question 17

A characteristic of mentalism is that it

Answer 17

Creates names for inner entities that cause behavior

Question 18

A characteristic of mentalism is that it

Answer 18

Assumes there are inner entities that are separate from behavior

Question 19

A private event

Answer 19

Is stimulation that is evident only to the behaver