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Regarding research on whether animals are sensitive to a passage of time,which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) Pigeons put in a Skinner box with a pecking key on each wall were not able to learn to peck at different keys based on the time of day.
B) Rats on fixed interval schedules stop responding immediately after they received a reinforcer and did not start again until just before the next scheduled reinforcement.
C) When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the worms if they were released four hours later.
D) When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the nuts if they were released five days later.

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which schedule of reinforcement may have long periods of nonreward that make it harder to discriminate between periods of reinforcement and extinction?


A) secondary
B) partial
C) continuous
D) conditional

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Pigeons and rats who are reinforced on fixed interval schedules stop responding immediately after they receive a reinforcer and do not start again until just before the next scheduled reinforcement.This illustrates that these animals are


A) "stuck in time."
B) intuitive thinkers.
C) cognitive time travelers.
D) strongly influenced by circadian rhythms that can help or hinder training.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table,your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps first whenever you were sitting at the kitchen table and later whenever you were sitting at any table or desk in the house.If you do not feed your dog while sitting at any other table besides the kitchen table,the jumping and begging response that originally generalized to all the tables and desks will extinguish because of


A) negative reinforcement.
B) nonreinforcement.
C) positive punishment.
D) latent learning.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Every time you give advice to a friend,she suddenly turns cold and rude toward you.Lately,you've stopped offering her advice because giving your friend advice has been


A) negatively reinforced.
B) punished.
C) classically conditioned.
D) affected by all of these.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Social reinforcers consist of


A) primary and secondary reinforcers.
B) knowledge and ability.
C) the learned desires for attention and approval.
D) positive environment stimuli and a lack of punishment.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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A reinforced response tends to be made again when similar antecedents are present.This is referred to as


A) operant stimulus discrimination.
B) operant stimulus generalization.
C) operant stimulus disinhibition.
D) spontaneous recovery.

E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

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In laboratory experiments,a cumulative recorder,which is a device with a moving strip of paper and a mechanical pen,is connected to a Skinner box.Rapid responding by the animal in this experiment will cause the pen on the cumulative recorder to


A) draw a steep line.
B) draw a horizontal line.
C) draw small tick marks.
D) leave empty spaces.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Information about the effects of a particular response is called


A) cognitive branching.
B) negative reinforcement.
C) primary reinforcement.
D) feedback.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Extinction in operant conditioning involves


A) withholding reinforcement.
B) punishment.
C) test trials.
D) shaping.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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You live in an apartment and your neighbor's stereo is blasting so loudly that your ears hurt.If you pound on the wall and the volume suddenly drops,you are more likely to pound on the wall again if the stereo is loud because you have


A) undergone extinction.
B) been negatively reinforced.
C) been positively reinforced.
D) received punishment.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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After scrub jays were allowed to store worms and nuts in different locations,the scrub jays released after four hours flew to the worms,but did not fly to the worms if they are released five days later.This illustrates that the scrub jays


A) had forgotten where they had hidden the worms after one day.
B) realized that the worms would be decayed after one day.
C) were not sensitive to a passage of time.
D) were "stuck in time."

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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The probability of repeating a response is increased by which of the following consequences?


A) punishment
B) response cost
C) nonreinforcement
D) negative reinforcement

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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On which schedule of reinforcement would a person or animal get rewarded on the average of every fifth response,that is,two correct responses would be made to obtain a reinforcer,sometimes seven responses,sometimes three,and so on with the average being five responses?


A) variable ratio
B) fixed interval
C) fixed ratio
D) variable interval

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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In laboratory experiments,a cumulative recorder that has a moving strip of paper and a mechanical pen is connected to a Skinner box.when reinforcers are given to the animal,they are indicated on the paper by


A) steep lines.
B) horizontal lines.
C) small tick marks.
D) empty spaces.

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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What effect does negative reinforcement have on a person's responding?


A) increases it
B) decreases it
C) completely extinguishes it
D) makes responding more unpleasant

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Punishment is LEAST effective in stopping a behavior when it is


A) intense.
B) consistent.
C) delayed.
D) all of these.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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New tools that make it easier for individuals to get feedback about their individual resource consumption are called


A) recycling data recorders.
B) green initiative diaries.
C) carbon footprint calculators.
D) ozone depletion updates.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Whenever you are trying to learn a complex skill,which of the following will almost always improve your learning and performance?


A) higher order conditioning
B) increased feedback
C) latent learning
D) systematic desensitization

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A teacher tells her first graders that whenever the bell on her clock rings,the students who are in their seats will each receive one token to put in their "happy jars." She then says,"No one knows when the clock will ring.It might be ten minutes,it might be 17 minutes,or only five minutes; so you better be in your seat." The teacher is using which schedule of reinforcement for "in-seat" behavior?


A) fixed ratio
B) fixed interval
C) variable ratio
D) variable interval

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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