The procedure in which only a portion of correct responses are reinforced is called ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

2. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

3. The combination of responses or ideals in novel way is called ___________?

   A. Exploration
   B. Creativity
   C. Thinking
   D. None of these

4. Sensory-motor responses that are rapid and autonomic are called ____________?

   A. instincts
   B. reuptake
   C. effective
   D. reflexes

5. A series of responses that gradually approach a desired pattern of behavior are called:

   A. adaptations
   B. gradients
   C. successive approximations
   D. conditioning trials

6. The colored portion of the eye is called the ______________?

   A. lens
   B. iris
   C. pupil
   D. cornea

7. When an operant response stops occurring because it is no longer reinforced, which of the following has taken place?

   A. an avoidance response
   B. generalization
   C. extinction
   D. negative reinforcement

8. A dog that gets rewarded for the first bark it makes in each ten minutes period is being reinforced on a_____schedule of reinforcement.

   A. continuous
   B. fixed interval
   C. variable interval
   D. fixed ratio

9. Watson argued that all behavior is composed of reflexive responses to stimuli, but Skinner later argued that behavior is determined ____________?

   A. patterns
   B. consequences of responses
   C. predictability of responses
   D. strength of responses

10. Which of the following is responsible for controlling involuntary responses by influencing organs, glands and smooth muscles?

    A. Somatic nervous system
    B. Autonomic nervous system
    C. Central nervous system
    D. Diffused nervous system