Skinner: Behavioral Analysis

Question 1

Avoids speculations about hypothetical constructs and concentrates almost exclusively on observable behavior

Answer 1

Radical behaviorism

Question 2

Responses followed by a satisfier tend to be learned

Answer 2

Law of effect (Thurstone)

Question 3

Exists but they should not be used to explain behavior

Answer 3

Internal states

Question 4

Type of conditioning wherein a neutral (conditioned) stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus until it is capable of bringing about a previously unconditioned response

Answer 4

Classical conditioning

Question 5

Any stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a specific response

Answer 5

Unconditioned stimulus

Question 6

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response

Answer 6

Conditioned stimulus

Question 7

The learned response to the previously neutral stimulus

Answer 7

Conditioned response

Question 8

An unlearned response that occurs naturally in reaction to the unconditioned stimulus

Answer 8

Unconditioned response

Question 9

A process wherein people may respond similarly to different environmental stimuli

Answer 9

Stimulus generalization

Question 10

Any stimulus that when added to a situation increases the probability that a given behavior will occur

Answer 10

Positive reinforcement

Question 11

The strengthening of behavior through the removal of an aversive stimulus

Answer 11

Negative reinforcement

Question 12

Decreases a behavior either by presenting an aversive stimulus or by removing a positive one

Answer 12

Punishment