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Unique to humans is... - ✔✔the ability for language to further influence superstitious behavior Superstitious behavior arises from... - ✔✔accidental contingencies Superstitious behavior illustrates that... - ✔✔reinforcement is effective even if it isn't related to the behavior that follows What schedules are most likely in the natural environment - ✔✔Variable schedules Matching law - ✔✔Quantitative relationship between rates of response and rates of reinforcement in concurrent schedules
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Unique to humans is... - ✔✔the ability for language to further influence superstitious behavior Superstitious behavior arises from... - ✔✔accidental contingencies Superstitious behavior illustrates that... - ✔✔reinforcement is effective even if it isn't related to the behavior that follows What schedules are most likely in the natural environment - ✔✔Variable schedules Matching law - ✔✔Quantitative relationship between rates of response and rates of reinforcement in concurrent schedules Long-term consequences are - ✔✔delayed Speed and effectiveness of punishment - ✔✔The more delayed the punishment, the less effective it is Belushi effect of drug tolerance - ✔✔Removal of the conditioned stimulus (the environment) allowed the drug to effect him differently, causing overdose The US Office of Technology assessments estimates that __ of modern medical treatments in common use have been proved as effective - ✔✔1/ Hart & Risley study - ✔✔Conducted to look for the cause of the disparity in linguistic progress among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being spoken to them than a working class child - ✔✔1/
Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being spoken to them than a professional class child - ✔✔1/ Should children be exposed to natural negative consequences - ✔✔Yes What makes praise so effective - ✔✔Being specific, immediate, and warranted - not generic Traditional viewpoints of mental health - ✔✔Involve mentalistic and unobservable causes Why is talk therapy useful - ✔✔We all want positive social reinforcement Strategty of community policing from an ABA standpoint - ✔✔Prejudice and stereotypes are nothing but overgeneralization Philosophy of the science of human behavior - ✔✔Behaviorism What do we rely on as a philosophy of human behavior - ✔✔Structuralism Normand 2009 about being skeptical - ✔✔Examine the available evidence before making a decision What do we need to consider to evaluate empirical evidence? - ✔✔Ensure that IOA has been demonstrated and experimental control was established Why does conditioning only go so far to explain human behavior? - ✔✔Adds countless stimuli but no new responses Ontogeny - ✔✔Individual
Why are phylogenic contingencies hard to identify - ✔✔The learning history cannot be observed; It is difficult to isolate from ontogenic contingencies Miller, Rodriguez, and Rourke suggested that when mirrors are used in imitation training... - ✔✔The mirror might serve as a discriminative control for the model T or F: Genes are not the sole cause of our behavior - ✔✔true Resistance to extinction cannot be determined without - ✔✔Having an accurate account of the reinforcement history Thorndike's Law of Effect - ✔✔Presented a "trial-and-error" type of explanation to the process involved with escaping T or F: Operant conditioning asserts that you cannot control your own behavior - ✔✔False T or F: You must be able to observe antecedent stimuli to predict future occurrences of behavior - ✔✔False Verbal communities shape our verbal repertoire to... - ✔✔- Be socially appropriate
Precision teaching is unique in relation to measurement because - ✔✔It is one of the few derivatives of Skinner's work to adhere to his concept of behavior frequency Rate is __ more sensitive to programming changes than percentage - ✔✔ 10 - 100 times T or F: In verbal behavior theory, the meanings for the speaker and the listener are the same - ✔✔False T or F: Referents cannot be explained by stimulus control - ✔✔False When radical behaviorists say that behavior is a function of the environment, the term "environment" means... - ✔✔Any event that occurs and is capable of affecting the organism Running your fingers over a stone table and thinking "this is rough" is an example of... - ✔✔Proprioceptive and exteroceptive stimuli Stating "I am hungry" after feeling your stomach contract is an example of - ✔✔Interoceptive stimuli When someone answers the question "did you feel a raindrop?" as it starts to rain is an example of... - ✔✔Perceptual behavior When someone answers the question "what are you thinking?", they are providing an example of - ✔✔Covert behavior When someone answers the question "when are you going to give him the feedback?", they are providing an example of - ✔✔Future behavior Hefferline and Keenan's results on thumb tension is an example of... - ✔✔Automaticity of reinforcement T or F: Mental causes mediate the causal relation between the environment and the behavior - ✔✔False