Blog

Which of the following is a critical attribute of reinforcement?

Behavior that is socially-mediated and that conforms to the practices of a verbal community can be classified as:

An abative effect is a(n) ___ in a dimension of behavior.

Which of the following respondent conditioning procedures is least likely to be effective?

The audience is composed of listeners who belong to a:

Mike is sitting at a stoplight. A horn honks from behind him. Mike looks up and sees the light has changed so he hits the gas. When he applies the gas his car shudders and then lurches forward. Which of the following stimuli, in relation to pressing the accelerator, is a consequence?

A good everyday term for negative reinforcement is:

Carl, the psychologist, met in his office with Jon.  Jon’s main problem was that he had trouble meeting and conversing with women. Carl focused on Jon’s self-concept and his personality disorder. In separate sessions, Janet, a behavior analyst, began to teach Jon to greet her with a hand-shake and eye contact, ask basic social questions, listen quietly to her replies, and then ask related follow-up questions.  Janet’s approach best exemplifies which dimension of ABA?

The fact that two events both occur in time, and that there is a time between the two events describes:

Select the omnibus term from the list below: