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Thursday, December 10, 2015

UNIT VI EXAM PREVIEW

UNIT VI REVIEW (252-253)
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. E
7. D
8. D
9. E
10. B
11. B
12. B
13. A
14. C
15. C

We will take the UNIT VI EXAM in class on Monday (December 14).  The exam will consist of 35 multiple-choice questions.  Ten of these questions are below.

QUESTION ONE
After Pavlov had conditioned a dog to salivate to a tone, he repeatedly sounded the tone without presenting the food. As a result, ________ occurred.

QUESTION TWO
In a well-known experiment, preschool children pounded and kicked a large inflated Bobo doll that an adult had just beaten on. This experiment served to illustrate the importance of __________.

QUESTION THREE
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, infants develop a fear of roses after roses are presented with electric shock. In this fictional example, the presentation of the roses is the __________.

QUESTION FOUR
Coffee shops that reward customers with one free cup of coffee after every ten coffee purchases are using a ________ reinforcement schedule.

QUESTION FIVE
A fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a(n) __________.

QUESTION SIX
Little Albert was conditioned by John B. Watson to fear furry white rats. After conditioning, Albert also showed fear to rabbits, dogs, and fur coats. This best illustrates __________.

QUESTION SEVEN
Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced with monetary winnings on a ________ schedule.

QUESTION EIGHT
Who introduced the term behaviorism?

QUESTION NINE
Extinction occurs when a ________ is no longer paired with a ________.

QUESTION TEN
B. F. Skinner's work elaborated what E. L. Thorndike had called __________.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

WRAPPING UP UNIT VI

We have a reading quiz today (12/8/15)
We have a vocabulary quiz over these terms on Thursday (12/10/15)
We will take the UNIT VI EXAM on Monday of next week (12/14/15)