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If you find that you have more positive feelings toward a product after an attractive spokeperson gives you a free sample,your change in attitudes would be said to have resulted from


A) evaluative conditioning
B) escape learning
C) reflexive conditioning
D) observational learning

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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When a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus,the process is


A) operant conditioning.
B) primary reinforcement.
C) Skinnerian conditioning.
D) classical conditioning.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Frederick cringes every time he hears a dentist's drill,even when he is sitting in the waiting room of his dentist's office.In this example,the pain of dental drilling is


A) a conditioned response.
B) an unconditioned stimulus.
C) an unconditioned response.
D) a conditioned stimulus.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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In Pavlov's principle experiment the conditioned stimulus was the


A) salivation.
B) meat powder.
C) light.
D) tone.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Application of conditioning principles to solve behavior problems is generally known as


A) behavior modification.
B) cognitive engineering.
C) modeling.
D) insight training.

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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A

April wants to teach her cat not to claw at the arms of her couch.She will be most successful in reducing the cat's scratching behavior if she uses


A) classical conditioning.
B) higher-order conditioning.
C) observational learning.
D) operant conditioning.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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D

Businesses often provide good meals and pleasant surroundings when initially meeting with new clients.In these situations,clients may develop positive feelings toward their business host and the company he or she represents.If this occurs,then the pleasant surroundings have functioned as


A) a conditioned stimulus.
B) a discriminative stimulus.
C) secondary reinforcers.
D) an unconditioned stimulus.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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The evolutionary perspective on learning suggests that


A) most species respond to classical conditioning, but only mammals show operant conditioning.
B) most species respond to operant conditioning, but only mammals show classical conditioning.
C) differences in the adaptive challenges faced by various species have led to some species-specific learning tendencies.
D) because all species face the same adaptive challenges, species-specific learning tendencies will disappear as a species evolves.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Ken used to drool at the smell of peanut butter cookies as they baked,and he couldn't wait to sink his teeth into that first cookie.However,Ken's new roommate makes terrible peanut butter cookies,and the smell of them baking is no longer associated with a wonderful taste experience.Consequently,Ken finds that the smell of the cookies no longer makes him drool in anticipation.This illustrates the classical conditioning process known as


A) spontaneous recovery.
B) second-order conditioning.
C) extinction.
D) avoidance.

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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In Pavlov's original experiment on classical conditioning,the unconditioned response (UR) was


A) the sound of a tone.
B) salivation elicited by a tone.
C) the presentation of meat powder following a tone.
D) salivation elicited by meat powder.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Studies of response-outcome relations and reinforcement have found that


A) operant behavior is automatically strengthened when it is followed by desirable consequences.
B) people actively reason out the relations between responses and the outcomes that follow.
C) there are species-specific predispositions to form certain types of associations.
D) on concurrent schedules of reinforcement, organisms emit responses that maximize the total number of reinforcers they will receive.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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The first step in a behavior modification program is to


A) gather baseline data.
B) specify the antecedents.
C) specify the target behavior.
D) design a program.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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A relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience is defined as


A) mediation.
B) maturation.
C) learning.
D) conditioning.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Josiah checks his electronic mail several times throughout the day.Some days there is mail each time he checks; sometimes several days go by with no new messages arriving.In this example,Josiah's behavior of checking his electronic mail is being reinforced on


A) a variable-interval schedule.
B) a fixed-ratio schedule.
C) a fixed-interval schedule.
D) a variable-ratio schedule.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Research examining the long-term effects of media violence has demonstrated that


A) the more violence children watch on TV the more aggressive they tend to be at home and school.
B) the more violence children watch on TV the less aggressive they tend to act at home and school.
C) no consistent relationship exists between how much violence children watch on TV and aggressive behavior.
D) watching violence on TV causes relatively nonaggressive children to become more aggressive but does not increase the level of aggression of relatively aggressive children.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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Henry received a bad sunburn on his face when he was skiing last winter.Now,before he starts a day of skiing,he uses a sunscreen on his face to prevent another sunburn.In this case,avoiding a sunburn functions as


A) a negative reinforcer for using a sunscreen.
B) a positive reinforcer for using a sunscreen.
C) a conditioned stimulus for using a sunscreen.
D) an unconditioned stimulus for using a sunscreen.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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In a variable-ratio schedule,the reinforcer is given


A) after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses.
B) after a variable number of nonreinforced responses.
C) for the first response that occurs after a fixed amount of time has elapsed.
D) for the first response that occurs after a variable amount of time has elapsed.

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Your teenaged daughter has not cleaned her room in a month.You go in and begin yelling at her to clean her room.She begins to clean up,and you stop yelling.Your daughter's cleaning behavior can be viewed as responding to


A) classical conditioning.
B) positive reinforcement.
C) punishers.
D) negative reinforcement.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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D

Imagine a husband and wife asking Bandura for advice on how they should teach their young child to say "please" and "thank you".Which of the following would Bandura be MOST likely to suggest?


A) punish the child when she fails to say "please" and "thank you"
B) give the child positive reinforcement for saying "please" and "thank you"
C) use negative reinforcement and withhold the requested item until the child says "please"
D) consistently say "please" and "thank you" in your interactions with others

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Slot machines increase gambling behavior through the use of


A) a continuous reinforcement schedule.
B) a noncontingent reinforcement schedule.
C) an intermittent reinforcement schedule.
D) a short-delay reinforcement schedule.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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