The steady, rapid responding of a person playing a slot machine is an example of the pattern of responding typically generated on a_______schedule.

Related Mcqs:

1. Positive reinforcement_______the rate of responding negative reinforcement________the rate of responding.

   A. increases; decreases
   B. decreases; increases
   C. increases; increases
   D. decreases; decreases

2. A pigeon in a Skinner box is pecking the disk at a high, steady rate. The graph portraying this pigeon’s responding will have:

   A. a steep, unchanging slope
   B. a shallow, unchanging slope
   C. a progressively steeper slope
   D. a progressively shallower slope

3. A psychologist watches the rapid eye movements of sleeping subjects and wakes them to find they report that they were dreaming. She concludes that dreams are linked to rapid eye movement. this conclusion is based on:

   A. pure speculation
   B. direct observation
   C. deduction from direct observation
   D. prior prediction

4. Which TWO of 1: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific moods.
   2: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific situations.
   3: In collaborative empiricism, the therapist formulates a hypothesis and then tests its validity himself.
   4: In collaborative empiricism, the client is asked to formulate a hypothesis and than helps the therapist to
   test its validity.the following definitions key features of Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy are accurate?

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

5. Communication among the neurons requires two main activities. Electrical signals which are generated by________and chemical signals which are generated by______.

   A. Resting potentials, neurotransmitters
   B. Neurotransmitters, axon potentials
   C. Neurotransmitters, depolarization
   D. Axon potentials; neurotransmitters

6. Responding to a conditioned stimulus in order to avoid electric shock is an example of ________________?

   A. avoidance conditioning
   B. punishment
   C. escape conditioning
   D. successive approximation

7. Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called:

   A. the placebo effect
   B. an extraneous variable
   C. variability
   D. psychosomatic illness

8. Maslow’s models fits the person-as- machine metaphor well. Which of the following is false concerning the model?

   A. A person will respond to whatever satisfies the lowest level unfulfilled need
   B. Workers in the same department are assumed to be the same needs level
   C. The behavior of the individual is unconscious and automatic
   D. The employer needs to know at what need level a worker is operating

9. Research on the effects of playing violent video games most clearly provides evidence that disconfirms the:

   A. mere exposure effect
   B. catharsis hypothesis
   C. frustration- aggression principle
   D. cognitive dissonance theory

10. A child is playing with a toy. When you hide the toy, she makes no effort to look for it. According to Jean Piaget, the child is in which stage of cognition?

    A. Concrete Operational
    B. Formal operational
    C. Sensorimotor
    D. Preoperational