Chapter 22 - Punishment by Contingent Stimulation

Question 1

Aversive Control

Answer 1

refers to the use of what behavior analysts call punishment and negative reinforcement.

Question 2

Aversive control often stops the undesirable behavior immediately. However, it does so at a price, often producing unwanted side effects.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Skinner felt the discovery of reinforcement makes aversive control less necessary.

Answer 3

Skinner

Question 4

PUNISHMENT is the procedure of following a behavior with a punisher.

Answer 4

Definition

Question 5

A PUNISHER is any event that follows a behavior and decreases the rate of that behavior.

Answer 5

Definition

Question 6

An event that you consider unpleasant may not be a punisher for someone else

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

There are two types of punishment.

Answer 7

You can deliver an aversive event OR

You can take away a reinforcer.

Question 8

PUNISHMENT BY CONTINGENT STIMULATION

Answer 8

Delivery of an aversive stimulus contingent on behavior.

When you deliver an aversive event contingent on a behavior.

Question 9

You are using EXTINCTION when you STOP delivering a reinforcing event.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

CONTINGENT PUNISHMENT

Answer 10

Delivering an aversive event after the behavior.

Question 11

EXTINCTION

Answer 11

stopping delivery of the reinforcing event.

ie. giving the child a cookie after a tantrum.