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

Related Mcqs:

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

   A. Fixed-ratio B. variable-ratio C. Fixed-interval D. variable-interval...

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

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

3. Five-year-olds who were surprised to discover that a Blind-Aids box contained pencils subsequently delighted in anticipating their friend’s false belief about the contents of the box. This best illustrates that the children had developed a(n):

   A. conventional morality B. theory of mind C. concept of conservation D. secure attachment...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. A man who explaining an individual’s aggressiveness, Skinner would look for:

   A. environmental factors that could promote aggression B. feelings of repressed hostility C. instinctual explanations D. early learning experiences and reinforcement history...

9. Which of the following learning mechanisms does B.F. Skinner see as being the major means by which behavior is learned?

   A. classical conditioning B. operant conditioning C. observational learning D. insight learning...

10. B.F. Skinner emphasized the importance of______in language acquisition.

    A. heuristics B. algorithms C. reinforcement D. universal grammar...