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Behavioural 5&6
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1Because it can be paired with a wide variety of other reinforcers, money is a ____________________________.
- Ageneralised conditioned reinforcer
- B generalised unconditioned reinforcer
- C primary reinforcer
2If you add a response cost to a token economy, you are adding a _______________________.
- Anegative reinforcer
- Bnegative punisher
- C positive punisher
3__________________________ involves using a tone as a conditioned reinforcer in recall ranching of fish.
- AImplementing a token economy
- B Temporal discrimination
- C Acoustic conditioning
4In a token economy, it is important to clearly explain and arrange how conditioned reinforcers will be ______________.
- Aexchanged
- Bchanged
- Cunconditioned
5A person's ______________________ can account for variations in the stimuli that will serve as conditioned reinforcers or punishers for that person.
- A personality
- B learning history
- C motivation
6A potential mistake in setting up a token economies is to _______________________________.
- Astop the person bargaining with you
- B thin the schedule
- C define behaviours poorly
7Protopopova and Wynne (2015) found that the behaviour of dogs in a shelter could be improved to increase their chances of adoption. Under a differential reinforcement of other behaviour schedule (DRO), reinforcers are presented ___________________________________.
- Aat fixed times but only if the undesirable behaviour is not occurring
- B contingent on desirable behaviour
- C contingent on undesirable behaviour
8TAGTEACH, which involves a clicker as a conditioned reinforcer for human behaviour, is called ____________________________.
- A teaching with unconditioned reinforcement
- B teaching with acoustical guidance
- Cconditioned teaching
9The difference between clicker training in animals and TAGTEACH is ___________________________________________.
- Athere is no explicit pairing of the sound with a primary reinforcer in TAGTEACH
- Bthere is no backup reinforcer in TAGTEACH
- C clicker training in animals is more effective
10A conditioned reinforcer is also called a _______________________.
- Aprimary reinforcer
- Bpairing reinforcer
- Csecondary reinforcer
11Which of the following is not an example of conditioned reinforcement?
- AA civilian gets reprimanded for disobeying a direct order
- BThe General gets paid in monthly instalments
- CA civilian avoids being bitten by not going outside alone.
- DDr Sharp presses the button and the next powerpoint slide appears
12Timmy’s teacher sets up a token economy to teach him to participate during carpet time. She puts a sticker on his chart every time he puts his hand up to answer a question. At the end of the day she tells him how many stickers he achieved. Identify the problem with this system.
- ATimmy should only get a sticker if he answered the question correctly
- BStickers should never be used as tokens
- CThere is no backup reinforcer
- DThe teacher should not tell Timmy how many stickers he earned
13A token economy should always be introduced on a ________ schedule and then changed to a ________ schedule of reinforcement.
- ACRF, denser
- BCRF, thinner
- CThin, CRF
- DThin, denser
14Which of the following is NOT a mistake when implementing a token economy?
- ANegotiating the backup reinforcer part way through
- BMaintaining a CRF schedule
- CNot exchanging the token economy for a backup reinforcer
- DChanging the backup reinforcer to something more reinforcing
15Select the correct answer. Target training during animal husbandry…
- APunishes the animal for incorrect responses
- BIs only useful for primates and exotic animals
- CIncreases animal interactions with humans
- DDecreases animal interactions with humans
16Which of the following explains shaping?
- ADifferential reinforcement of successive approximations of the target behaviour
- BDifferential reinforcement of a selected target behaviour
- CConsistent reinforcement of successive behaviours
- DConditioned reinforcement for absence of a target behaviour
17Shaping can be used with...
- AAnimals
- BHumans
- CHumans but only for sport-type behaviours
- DA and B.
- EA and C
18Money is an example of...
- AA tertiary reinforcer
- BA generalised conditioned reinforcer
- CShaping
- DAn unconditioned reinforcer
19Which of the following use is NOT an example of conditioned reinforcement?
- AUsing an acoustic marker to show a dancer when her foot is in the correct fouetté position.
- BUsing a tone to attract fish to an area for aquaculture.
- CGiving a child an ice cream for getting 100% on a test at school.
- DGiving a child £2 for getting 100% on a test at school.
20When should you NOT use shaping?
- ATo teach a new behaviour.
- BWhen you can tell or show someone how to engage in the target behaviour.
- CTo increase a previously-engaged in behaviour.
- DTo teach verbal behaviour.
21When superstitious behaviour occurs because of something in the environment, it is a Type 2 superstition. Behaviour is under superstitious ________________ control.
- A causal
- Bdiscriminative
- C reinforcer
22Skinner (1948) showed each pigeon in his study engaged in a dominant superstitious response when he delivered reinforcers on a ______ schedule of reinforcement.
- AFT
- BFR
- CVI
23Killeen (1978) showed that superstitious behaviour may not be a result of an inability to discriminate, but of ________________.
- A bias
- B contingency shaping
- C chance
24Adventitious reinforcement is when a reinforcer _____________________ a behaviour but is not caused by it.
- Aprecedes
- Boccurs simultaneously with
- C follows
25Superstitious behaviour drifts over time because small ______________ in the behaviour are reinforced and become dominant.
- Aconsistencies
- B variations
- Cmotivations
26Rule-governed behaviour arises with instruction; it is _______________.
- A shaped
- Baffected by contingencies
- Cnot shaped
27The law of effect is a _____________________; it’s about things happening close together in time.
- ATemporal law
- B Temperate law
- CDiscriminative law
28Supersitious behaviour is NOT ____________________.
- Adifficult to produce
- B persistent
- Cbehaviour that drifts over time
29Wager and Morris (1978) found that when a clown dispensed marbles on a fixed-time schedule, children developed superstitious behaviour that was characteristic of scalloped responding under a _________________ schedule.
- A Fixed-ratio
- B Fixed-interval
- C Variable-ratio
30A behaviour analytic account of values is that __________________________________.
- Avalues don’t exist
- B values are unconditioned
- C we learn to call some things good and some things bad
31What is the cause of superstitious behaviour?
- ASupernatural forces
- BConcurrent schedules
- CComplex schedules
- DAdventitious reinforcement
- ENone of the above
32Superstitious behaviour is:
- AImpossible to extinguish
- BEasy to extinguish
- CDifficult to extinguish
- DNot subject to the principles of behaviour analysis
33Superstitious behaviour reinforced under VT and FT (response-independent) schedules produces responding similar to which type of schedule/s?
- ACRF
- BVI and FI
- CVR and FR
- DNone of the above, superstitious behaviour has it’s own schedule of responding
34Which of the following is an example of stimulus control?
- AThe infected only attacks non-infected humans but not other infected
- BThe infected salivates when hungry
- CThe infected prefer to bite humans rather than animals because of the taste
- DThe infected finds bright lights to be aversive and shields it’s eyes
35Which of the following are true about rule-governed behaviour?
- AYou do not need to experience the contingency to follow rule- governed behaviour
- BThe rule can be written or spoken
- CThe rule defines the contingency
- DA and C
- EAll of the above
36Culture is transmitted:
- AThrough verbal behaviour alone
- BThrough rule-governed behaviour, contingency-shaped behaviour and imitation
- COnly though contingency-shaped behaviour
- DGenetically
- EThrough imitation of others in that culture
37When good events occurs, we tend to attribute the cause to ________ and when negative events occur, we tend to attribute the cause to _______.
- AOurselves, ourselves.
- BThe environment, ourselves.
- COurselves, the environment.
- DThe environment, the environment
38Which of the following could be classified as superstitious behaviour?
- AThe Commander took his weapon with her on a recon mission as she often needs to use it when encountering the infected
- BThe General speaks loudly so that all civilians can hear him
- CA civilian chooses the Healers team because they like to help people
- DAn infected bangs on all vending he encounters because once when he did this a human happened to walk by
39In behavioural terms, holding someone responsible is:
- AChoosing whether to apply a consequence
- BBeing mean
- CBlaming the individual, not the environment
- DBlaming culture for an individual’s actions
40Type 2 superstitions describe superstitious discriminative control. This means:
- Aattributing behaviour to culture
- Battributing a behaviour to the presence of a stimulus
- Cattributing an environmental event to the presence of a stimulus
- Dattributing an environmental event to the presence of a behaviour
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