Final Exam (got this babes!!)

Question 1

Behavior analysis is the science that studies ____ events that _____ behavior

Answer 1

environmental; modify

Question 2

Who discovered operant conditioning?

Answer 2

B.F Skinner

Question 3

what is the principle of public events?

Answer 3

seeking causes of behav in outside events

Question 4

What is the difference between count and rate

Answer 4

count is a tally of the # of occurences of a behav, rate includes a unit of time (5 times in 1 min.)

Question 5

what is duration

Answer 5

the amount of time in which a behavior occurs (coughs for 5 seconds)

Question 6

response latency is the measure of how much time has passed between ____

Answer 6

stimulus and response

Question 7

What are the 2 forms of time sampling

Answer 7

whole-interval, partial interval, and momentary time sampling

Question 8

what is partial-interval recording

Answer 8

if the behavior occurs at any time during the interval

Question 9

which single-subject design is the simplest design?

Answer 9

comparison design; can’t rule out time coincidences or say that treatment is completely responsible for the change in behavior

Question 10

reversal design looks at baseline, treatment, and ____

Answer 10

reversal

Question 11

multiple-baseline design looks at across what?

Answer 11

participants, behaviors, and settings

Question 12

reinforcer is any event that does what two things?

Answer 12

follows a behavior and increases the rate of that behavior

Question 13

reinforcer is withheld during what to decrease the behavior

Answer 13

extinction

Question 14

differential reinforcement is a procedure where ____ is reinforced while _____ are extinguished

Answer 14

one behavior; others

Question 15

what are the 4 factors that make a reinforcer more effective?

Answer 15

contingency, immediately, size, deprivation

Question 16

fixed-ratio schedule

Answer 16

reinforce the first response after a fixed number of responses

Question 17

variable-ratio schedule

Answer 17

reinforcing the first response after a variable number of responses

Question 18

fixed-interval schedule

Answer 18

reinforces the first response after a fixed period of time since prior reinforcement

Question 19

variable-interval schedule

Answer 19

reinforces the first response after varying period of time
-the mean duration of intervals is used

Question 20

discrimination training is a procedure in which a behavior is reinforced in the presence of one stimulus and extinguished in _______

Answer 20

one stimulus; another

Question 20

SD reinforces a behavior because it has been reinforced in the _____ of the stimulus

Answer 20

presence

Question 21

T/F: s-delta comes after the behavior and is present if extinction occurs

Answer 21

False: it precedes the behavior

Question 22

stimulus control is what

Answer 22

the increased probability that a discriminated behavior occurs in the presence of a discriminative stimulus

Question 23

generalization is a ____ while generalization training is a ____

Answer 23

process; procedure

Question 24

programming

Answer 24

temporary use of prompts to establish generalization to class of stimuli
-different from gen. training because programming uses prompts

Question 25

primary reinforcers loses effectiveness when?

Answer 25

temporarily through satiation

Question 26

conditioned reinforcer loses effectiveness when?

Answer 26

when they aren’t paired with presentations
ex. movie ticket, stamp card

Question 27

punishment is a procedure using a punisher. what is a punisher?

Answer 27

an event that follows a behav and decreases the rate of behav

Question 28

what is escape?

Answer 28

a behavior that terminates a neg reinforcer

Question 29

avoidance

Answer 29

a behavior that prevents a neg reinforcer

Question 30

what are 5 problems with punishment

Answer 30

1. doesn’t teach appropriate behaviors
2. can result in undesirable emotional response and aggression
3. may model undesirable behavior
4. can be overused because of neg. reinforcement it provides the punishing agent
5. can’t punish not doing something