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

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1. 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

2. 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

3. According to B.F. Skinner human behavior is controlled primarily by __________________?

   A. biological predispositions
   B. external influences
   C. emotions
   D. unconscious motives

4. In operant conditioning, what is the relationship between events critical to learning and the response to be learned?

   A. They occur before the response
   B. They occur after the response
   C. They occur simultaneously with the response
   D. they are unrelated to the response

5. 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

6. which of the following method of learning is used in learning by doing:

   A. Learning thought trial & error
   B. Learning thought imitation
   C. Learning thought insight
   D. All of the above

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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