Under which of the following reinforcement schedules is it most important for an organism to learn to estimate time accurately?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Which of the following reinforcement schedules in operant conditioning would be best to use if you want to produce behavior that is very resistant to extinction?

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

3. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?

   A. aptitude test
   B. achievement test
   C. projective test
   D. acquisition test

4. 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

5. Not every organism will learn at the same rate as a result of:

   A. Contiguity and conditioning
   B. Habituation and contiguity
   C. Blocking and preparedness
   D. Blocking and autoshaping
   E. Preparedness and conditioning

6. The human organism is extremely_____environmental factors that can affect the organism include all the persons, objects, situations, and conditions that constitute the external would of any living individual:

   A. Complex
   B. simple
   C. Coward
   D. Social

7. Some employers allow their employees to create their own schedules within set parameters. This is called ___________?

   A. Job sharing
   B. Job enrichment
   C. Time sharing
   D. Flextime

8. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

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

9. To estimate the degree of the relationship between birth order and achievement motivation a researcher would do a(n)___________study.

   A. naturalistic
   B. inventory
   C. correlational
   D. experimental

10. In order to estimate trait heritability, researchers are most likely to make use of:

    A. gender sachems
    B. gender-typing
    C. twin studies
    D. cloning