Exam 16: Skinner: Behavioral Analysis

A) The idea of freedom is positively reinforcing for many people.
B) By nature,people desire freedom and are resistant to control.
C) Societies can advance only when they value individual freedom.
D) People can never be free until they have embraced responsibility.
E) All of these are correct.

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A) drives which have been learned.
B) living in society.
C) the contingencies of survival.
D) reproduction.
E) unintentional injuries.

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A) the situation,behavior,and conditioned stimulus.
B) the unconditioned stimulus,the conditioned stimulus,and the organism.
C) the antecedent,the behavior,and the consequence.
D) the unconditioned stimulus,the "Skinner box",and the experimenter.

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A) Grant's planning behavior is positively reinforcing.
B) Grant's personal history of insufficient planning has been negatively reinforced.
C) Grant simply desires to view Italian art.
D) Grant has obsessive thoughts of viewing Italian art.

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A) many dreams spring from a collective unconscious.
B) dreams are beyond the scope of radical behaviorism.
C) dreams can be used to predict the future.
D) many dreams serve a wish-fulfillment purpose.

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A) began with complex organisms and then deduced specific principles.
B) held that science must be able to explain the causes of natural phenomena.
C) attempted to predict behavior,but neither to explain it nor to control it.
D) wanted to know how behavior can be described,predicted,and controlled.
E) held behavior to be neither lawful nor determined.

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A) is beyond the realm of science.
B) is limited to internal events.
C) is motivated by hypothetical constructs.
D) results from unconscious psychodynamic processes.
E) None of these is correct.

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A) learned very rapidly.
B) extinguished very rapidly.
C) resistant to extinction.
D) extinguished rapidly through punishment.

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A) mental processes.
B) cognition.
C) conflicts.
D) behavior.
E) motivation.

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A) psychodynamic
B) determinist
C) environmentalist
D) radical behaviorist

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A) suppression of the behavior punished
B) suppression of related behavior
C) shaping of the targeted behavior
D) conditioning of negative feelings

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A) a writer whose ideas have influenced the behavior therapy movement.
B) a writer whose ideas have helped shape current psychoanalytic thinking.
C) a practicing psychotherapist.
D) the author of Walden Two.

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A.Thorndike's original law of effect hel...

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A) forgetting.
B) repression.
C) respondent extinction.
D) operant extinction.

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A) contingencies of reinforcement.
B) natural selection.
C) both of these.
D) neither of these.

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A) is irrelevant to operant conditioning.
B) explains some animal behavior but no human behavior.
C) accounts for most human behavior.
D) is probably responsible for some human behavior.

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A) operant conditioning
B) respondent conditioning
C) extinction
D) describing contingencies

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A) positively reinforcing for the child.
B) negatively reinforcing for Sandy.
C) neither one of these.
D) both of these.

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