Week 5 - Extinction, Punishment and Aversive Learning

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Undergradtuate PSY236 - Learning Quiz on Week 5 - Extinction, Punishment and Aversive Learning, created by Daniel Whiting on 20/09/2017.
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Question 1

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What are the two main effects that extinction behaviours have on an operant behaviour?
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  • Rate of responding decreases
  • Behaviour variability increases
  • Behaviour variability decreases
  • Rate of responding increases
  • Behaviour is unlearned

Question 2

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Resurgence is when...
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  • A behaviour that used to produce reinforcement in the past reappears.
  • A behaviour extinguished in one context remains present in a novel context.
  • The conditioned response returns after a presentation of the US by itself.
  • There is an uprising like in the Divergence movies.

Question 3

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Which of the following factors influence the rate of extinction?
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  • Schedule of reinforcement
  • Length of previous training
  • History of reinforcement
  • Deprivation
  • Delay of reinforcer
  • Type of animal being tested

Question 4

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When a conditioned behaviour is extinguished in one context but remains present in another context, this is called...
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  • Renewal
  • Resurgence
  • Rapid reacquisition
  • Reinstatement

Question 5

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Reinstatement is when...
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  • The presentation of a US on its own brings back a conditioned response.
  • The presentation of a CR on its own brings back the conditioned response.
  • When a behaviour is extinguished in one context but remains in another.
  • When behaviours that previously earned a reinforcer appear during extinction.

Question 6

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Extinction is context specific because it is...
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  • The second thing learned
  • Inhibitory learning
  • The first thing learned
  • Excitatory learning
  • Dependent on so many factors

Question 7

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Which of the following is more preferable for changing unwanted behaviour?
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  • Positive punishment
  • Negative punishment
  • Positive reinforcement
  • Negative reinforcement

Question 8

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[blank_start]Avoidance[blank_end]: Preventing delivery of an aversive stimulus [blank_start]Escape[blank_end]: Getting away from a current aversive stimulus
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  • Avoidance
  • Escape
  • Exctinction
  • Punishment

Question 9

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In the 2 process theory of avoidance learning, the avoidance response of escaping is considered to be what?
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  • Negative reinforcement
  • Positive reinforcement
  • Unconditioned response
  • Conditioned response
  • Conditioned stimulus

Question 10

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A problem for the two factor theory of avoidance learning is that a subject can learn avoidance without a CS. What is this called?
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  • Sidman free operant
  • One factor theory
  • Inhibitory escape theory
  • Escape learning theory

Question 11

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Rescorla & Lolordo found that in avoidance learning...
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  • CS+ can amplify avoidance
  • CS+ can reduce avoidance
  • CS- can reduce avoidance
  • CS- can amplify avoidance
  • R+ can amplify avoidance
  • D+ does nothing to avoidance behaviour
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