PSY 538 Quiz 10 Evolution

Question 1

What was the first behavior and what was the plausible second step

Answer 1

1. Simple Movement

2. Sensing

Question 2

What kind of behavior raises a special problem?

Answer 2

Social behaviors

Question 3

Why do social behaviors raise a special problem

Answer 3

Two interrelated but different kinds of behavior seem to evolve together.

Question 4

What are the three behavioral processes Skinner suggests have evolved and that need to be explained?

Answer 4

1. imitation and modeling
2. respondent conditioning
3. Operant conditioning

Question 5

What are the two other stages in the evolution of operant behavior that need to be explained?

Answer 5

1. Once the process existed, a susceptibility to reinforcement by new forms of stimulation could have evolved.
2. The evolution of unconditioned behavior having no survival value of its own but available for selection through operant reinforcement.

Question 6

What are the two kinds of reasons (contingencies) we do most

Answer 6

1. Contingencies of survival

2. Contingencies of reinforcement

Question 7

What has largely replaced what in the human species?

Answer 7

Operant conditioning has replaced natural selection

Question 8

What two processes play important roles in transmitting the results of exceptional contingencies of reinforcement?

Answer 8

Imitation and modeling