A. The approach cannot consistently predict motivation
B. The approach makes too many assumptions of behavior
C. The approach as little or no role for any cognitive activity
D. The approach is not applicable in today’s workplace
Related Mcqs:
- Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.
A. acquisition
B. development
C. performance
D. generalization - Rahila found that a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus only if it is contingent and:
A. Inclusive
B. Dominant
C. Informative
D. Appropriate - Research on the role of reinforcement in insight therapy has found that ___________?
A. It does not play a role
B. It does play a role
C. It has an effect only on dependent patients
D. It plays a role in highly structured therapy situation - In negative reinforcement __________________________?
A. an aversive stimulus is administered
B. a pleasing stimulus is removed
C. response learning is faster than escape training
D. an aversive stimulus is removed - Under which of the following reinforcement schedules is it most important for an organism to learn to estimate time accurately?
A. fixed ratio
B. variable interval
C. variable ratio
D. fixed interval - The reinforcement schedule that yields the lowest performance is the __________________?
A. fixed-ration schedule
B. variable-interval schedule
C. fixed-interval schedule
D. verbal-interval-schedule - Which of the following is an example of reinforcement?
A. presenting a positive stimulus after a response
B. removing an unpleasant stimulus after a response
C. being told that you have done a good job
D. all of the above - Negative reinforcement occurs when behavior:
A. Decreases
B. Is punished
C. Remains the same
D. Increases - 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 - If the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without reinforcement, we can expect:
A. an increase in stimulus generalization
B. the strength of the UR to increase
C. an increase in response generalization
D. extinction to occur
