Question 1

When Tobias passed his driver\'s exam, the song Fire and Rain by James Taylor was playing on the radio. Now, whenever Tobias hears this sad song, he feels joyous. Tobias\'s joyful reaction to the sad song can be classified as a(n)

Accepted Answer

conditioned response

Question 2

Laura watched a public service announcement to curb smoking in which a young boy describes how his mother died from lung cancer after smoking for twenty years. In this example the unconditioned response would be

Accepted Answer

sadness regarding a mother\'s death.

Question 3

Jillian, a stay-at-home mother, watches a lot of daytime television. During the day, Charmin toilet paper runs lots of television ads. Jillian always smiles when she sees these ads because they have so many cute babies on them. When Jillian is shopping at her local market, she finds herself smiling when she is in the toilet paper section, especially when she is near the Charmin toilet paper. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus(i) is(are) the

Accepted Answer

cute babies

Question 4

Jillian\'s smiling at the cute babies is a(n)

Accepted Answer

unconditioned response.

Question 5

___________ is the conditioned stimulus and ___________ is the conditioned response in the example with Jillian.

Accepted Answer

Toilet paper; smiling.

Question 6

Julie works at a factory that produces toy clowns. As the toy clowns come down the assembly line it is Julie\'s job to add a red nose to each clown as the last step in completing each toy. For every 100 clowns Kelly completes, she receives $10.00, which is a(n)

Accepted Answer

positive reinforcement.

Question 7

To increase productivity, the clown factory decides to have a contest. The person who completes the most clowns on Monday does not have to come to work on Tuesday. The factory is using __________ as a motivator.

Accepted Answer

negative reinforcement.

Question 8

The clown factory\'s bosses do not like laziness. If a worker completes fewer than 20 toys during the morning hours, they do not get to take a lunch break. This behavioral tactic is an example of ___________.

Accepted Answer

negative punishment.

Question 9

The clown factory\'s bosses also do not like mistakes. If a worker forgets to put a nose on a clown, the bosses publicly scold the worker. This behavioral tactic is an example of __________.

Accepted Answer

positive punishment.

Question 10

As you can see from the examples above, the clown factory\'s bosses use _________ to increase behaviors they like and ________ to decrease behaviors they do not like.

Accepted Answer

reinforcement; punishmen

Question 11

Behavior that is rewarded some but not all of the time is on a __________ schedule of reinforcement.

Accepted Answer

fixed

Question 12

The ____________ schedule of reinforcement reinforces behavior only after a specific number of responses are made.

Accepted Answer

fixed ratio

Question 13

Edwin Employer pays his workers at 5:00 p.m. every Friday. Edwin is using which schedule of reinforcement to reward his employees?

Accepted Answer

Fixed interval

Question 14

The reinforcement schedule that typically yields the highest response rate is the ___________ schedule of reinforcement.

Accepted Answer

variable ratio

Question 15

Professor McMann loves to give pop quizzes in his psychology class. Students are always studying for this class because they never know when Professor McMann will give the next quiz. Sometimes he gives a pop quiz every other class session. Sometimes he gives a pop quiz every third session, and sometimes he even gives a pop quiz every class session. Professor McMann is using which schedule of reinforcement to keep his students studying?

Accepted Answer

Variable interval

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