Unit 6 Quiz Flashcards
John spent his summer picking cantaloupes for a farmer. The farmer paid John a certain amount for every basket of cantaloupes picked. John worked on a
Fixed ratio schedule
People sometimes behave differently from animals on a given schedule. This is most likely because
People receive instructions about what they are to do
______ is an excellent schedule for increasing the rate at which a behaviour occurs
DRH
The schedule to use if you want to produce the most rapid learning of new behaviour is
CRF
The study of reinforcement schedules suggests that the behaviour we call stick-to-it-iveness is largely the product of
Reinforcement history
CRF is synonymous with
FR 1
Goldberg and Cheney demonstrated that rats will malinger if other rats will work harder. They did this using a ____ schedule
Cooperative
In schedules research, VD stands for
Variable duration
The explanation of the PRE that puts greatest emphasis on internal cues is the
Frustration hypothesis
Of the following, the schedule that is most likely to produce a superstitious behaviour is the _____ schedule:
FD
VD
DRH
VT
VT
The schedule that is likely to produce a cumulative record with scallops is the
FI schedule
One explanation for the PRE implies that the effect is really an illusion. This is the
Response unit hypothesis
Shirley trains a rat to press a lever and then reinforces lever presses on and FR 10 schedule when a red light is on, and and FI 10” schedule when a green light is on. In this case, lever pressing is on a
Multiple schedule
The Goldberg and Cheney study found that malingering occurred even though
Malingering reduced the amount of reinforcement received by the malingerer
True or false: when a response is placed on extinction, there is often an increase in emotional behaviour
True
True or false: One difference between FT and FI schedules is that in FT schedules, the reinforcement is not contingent on behaviour
True
True or false: although important, the matching law is restricted to a narrow range of species, responses, reinforcers, and reinforcement schedules
False
True or false: in VI schedules, the reinforcer occurs periodically regardless of what the organism does
False
M True or false: when food is the reinforcer, it is possible to stretch the ratio to the point at which an animal expends more energy than it receives
True
True or false: in a multiple schedule, the organism is forced to choose between two or more reinforcement schedules
False
The explanation of the PRE that puts the greatest emphasis on internal cues is the
Frustration hypothesis
When behaviour is on and if our schedule, animals often discontinue working briefly following reinforcement. These periods are called
Post-reinforcement pauses
Choice involves these types of schedules
Concurrent
CRF stands for
Continuous reinforcement
In CRF, the ratio of reinforcers to responses is 1 to 1; in FR1, the ratio is:
1 to 1
The schedule below that is not an intermittent schedule is:
FR 1
FR 5
VR 1
VI 1”
FR 1
