Questions and Answers of Principles Of Behavior

Medical model—give examples of how it differs from the behavioral view.LO5
How is the wrong use of the medical model an example of circular reasoning? Please give an example.LO5
What are the 12 verbs and expressions you shouldn’t use with nonhuman animals and nonverbal human beings?LO5
Give an example of how each can be misused.LO5
Give an example of how to say the same thing without having to wash your mouth out with soap.LO5
We just snuck a tiny joke into the last few sentences; so tiny that only 15% of our students got it.LO5
What is the difference between reinforcer and reinforcement?LO5
Correctly use reinforcer and reinforcement in the same sentence.LO5
Baseline—define it and give an example.LO5
Escape response (behavior)—give an example. LO2
Give an example of the use of reinforcement by the removal of an aversive stimulus. Specify the aversive stimulus and the escape behavior. LO2
Aversive stimulus—define it and give an example of how you could use an aversive stimulus to modify behavior. LO2
Give an example of LO2• an aversive stimulus harmful to you• a harmful stimulus that is not aversive• an aversive stimulus that is not harmful.
You should be so hyped up about how dumb it is to use “adversive,” that you’d spot it immediately on a written quiz and get full credit for correcting it. And, of course your sly but caring
Escape contingency—define it and diagram an example. LO2
To escape—use it in a sentence in a technical sense. LO2
Compare and contrast reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcer vs. reinforcement by the removal of an aversive stimulus. Illustrate your points with an example. LO2
Draw the contingency table (preliminary #1) and explain it. LO2
Draw the tree diagram of the two basic reinforcement contingencies.LO2
Give an example of an unacceptable behavior maintained by an escape contingency and show how you might get rid of the bad behavior by substituting a more acceptable alternative escape response.
Functional assessment—define it. LO2
What are the three functional assessment strategies? LO2
What kind of contingency is this? LO2a. reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcerb. escape—reinforcement by the removal of an aversive stimulus
Sick social cycle-define it and give an example. LO2• Draw the two contingency diagrams for your example.• Draw the circular diagram of the sick social cycle.
Now please fill in the diagram for your whole sick social cycle. (The contingency for the perpetrator goes in the top row; the contingency for the victim goes in the second row.) LO2
Diagram an escape contingency in a Skinner box. LO2
Describe an experiment that demonstrates learning without awareness. LO2a. What species were the subjects?b. What was the response?c. What were the contingencies?d. What were the differences in the
Parsimony—define it and give an example of how to convert an un-parsimonious analysis to a parsimonious analysis. LO2
Compare and contrast psychiatry and psychology. LO2
Who is the most famous real psychologist in the world? LO2
In simple terms, compare and contrast behavior analysis and psychoanalysis. LO2
The toothpaste theory of abnormal behavior—state and give an example of this false general rule. LO2
Construct the table contrasting our fundamental terms and traditional fundamental terms. Then be able to use that table in answering the following questions. LO2
Which of the following is the negative reinforcer in a Skinner box escape experiment? LO2a. the shockb. the foodc. the termination of the shockd. the termination of the food
Please explain your answer to the previous question by the logic of the definitions and the table. LO2
Reinforcer—define it and give an example of attention as a reinforcer.
How quickly should the reinforcer follow the response?
And roughly, what’s the greatest delay you could have between the reinforcer and the response, to get any learning?
How immediate is immediate to response a reinforcer?
What’s your guess? Would a gold star on your friend’s forehead normally act as a reinforcer?
What about other things on her face—like mascara on her eyelashes, eye shadow on her eyelids, rouge on her cheeks, and lipstick on her lips? Might they act as reinforcers?
Mae thought that all the attention Eric got for his tantrums probably acted as a reinforcer that caused the tantrums to occur. At least that reinforcer probably kept the tantrums going once they got
Give a few examples where the sight of something probably reinforces the behavior of looking at it.
State the “Check the reinforcer first” general rule and then give an example of where and how you should use that general rule.
Give an example of reinforcer assessment.
Please give the following examples:a. an example of a reinforcer that is helpful for youb. a helpful stimulus that is not a reinforcerc. a reinforcer that is harmful

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