Multiple Choice Questions Flashcards
Skinner improved on Thorndikes method of studying behavior by measuring..
A. Response latency
B. Response Duration
C. Response intensity
D. Response rate
D. Response Rate
An applied behavior analyst would be interested in studying…
A. Whether impulsive people are also risk prone
B. Whether pigeons are more sensitive to brighter
vs. Lighter illumination
C. Whether autistic children can be trained to
communicate effectively
D. Whether rats can discriminate the effects of cocaine, nicotine, and methamphetamine.
C. Whether autistic children can be trained to communicate effectively.
When presented with a white rabbit, Albert would sit next to it. But then Dr. Watson would make a loud scary banging sound whenever Albert was near the rabbit. Eventually, Albert became afraid of the rabbit. The rabbit is a…
A. Unconditioned response
B. Unconditioned Stimulus
C.conditioned response
D. Conditioned stimulus
D. Conditioned Stimulus
Behavior Analysts see thinking and feeling as…
A. Verbs
B. Nouns
C. Adjectives
D. Gerunds
A. Verbs
The correct order of events in Respondent Conditioning is…
A. Response follows stimulus
B. Response precedes stimulus
C. Stimulus follows response
D. Stimulus emits response
A. Response follows stimulus
The first effect of the motivating operation is…
A. A change in the frequency of behavior
associated with the consequence
B. A change in the reinforcing effectiveness of a
Consequence
C. A change in frequency of how often
consequences are delivered after each response
D. A change in reinforcing effectiveness of the
discriminative stimulus
A change I’m the reinforcing effectiveness of a Consequence.
Radical Behaviorism is different from methodological behaviorism in that radical behaviorism..
A. Acknowledges observable behaviors are worth
studying
B. Does not acknowledge that observable
behaviors are worth studying
C. Acknowledge that un observable behaviors are
worth studying
D. Does not acknowledge that un observable
behaviors are worth studying
C. acknowledges that un observable behaviors are worth studying
When assessing ABAB design graphs, all are considered except..
A. Change in level
B. Length of condition
C. Range in variability
D. Immediacy of change
B. length of condition
A respondent contingency exists when there is a correlation between..
A. US &UR
B. CS &US
C. NS &NR
D. CS &Sd
B. CS & US
In this type of recording, behavior is sampled over a long time period, making observations at specified times..
A. Frequency recording
B. Interval Recording
C. Time sampling
D. Duration recording
Time sampling
The second effect of the motivating operation is…
A change in frequency of behavior associated with the Consequence
Generalizability is achieved with a direct replication when..
Multiple participants are used in one study and everybody’s ABAB performance is the same
Writing rests is a low frequency behavior for Dr. Searcy while watching trailer park boys on Netflix is a High frequency behavior. He developed a plan where if he wrote the test first, he could watch trailer park boys afterwards, Dr. Searcy is using the_______ to control his behavior.
Premack Principle
In a class study, pigeons were reinforced with grain when they pecked at a key while a picture of a human face was displayed on a chamber wall. The human face was a….
Sd
In the previous study, if a picture of a dog was displayed on the chamber wall and the pigeon pecked at a key but did not get reinforced what would the picture of the dog be?
S delta
