Psy 421 Ch 6.1

Question 1

Refers to the acquisition of a new skill

Answer 1

How most people use the term learning

Question 2

Also includes changes in which no new behavior appears

Answer 2

What learning can also include

Question 3

A reduction in the rate of behavior or pattern of performance

Answer 3

What learning can also mean

Question 4

A rule describing the delivery of reinforcers

Answer 4

Schedule of reinforcement

Question 5

The distinctive rate and pattern of responding associated with a particular reinforcement schedule.

Answer 5

Schedule effects

Question 6

Any of several reinforcement schedules where behavior is sometimes reinforced.

Answer 6

Intermittent schedules of reinforcement

Question 7

A reinforcement schedule in which a behavior is reinforced each time it occurs.

Answer 7

Continuous schedules of reinforcement

Question 8

Four simple schedules of reinforcement

Answer 8

FR- fixed ratio
VR- variable ratio
FI- fixed interval
VI- variable interval

Question 9

A pause in responding following reinforcement, associated primarily with FI and FR schedules.

Answer 9

Postreinforcement pause

Question 10

The rate at which a behavior occurs once it has resumed following reinforcement

Answer 10

Run rate

Question 11

Reinforcement given non-contingency after a fixed or variable time ha passed

Answer 11

FT or VT

Question 12

Reinforcement is contingent on the continuous performance of a behavior for either a fixed or variable period of time

Answer 12

FD or VD