FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSY OF LEARNING CH.2

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSY OF LEARNING CH.2

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Question 1: aversive stimulus

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An event that an organism will avoid

Question 2: cumulative recorder

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A device that measures total number of responses over time and provides a graphic depiction of the rate of behavior Question 3: This perspective holds that it is possible to understand the mind by identifying its basic elements.

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structuralism Question 4: Although ___ believed that the mind consists of various combinations of basic elements, it was researchers associate with the approach known as ___ who actually began to test that idea.

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the British empiricists; Structuralism

Question 5: stimulus

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Any event that can potentially influence behavior Question 6: Dr. Franzoi notices that one of her patients has great difficulty describing her emotions, possibly because she was severely neglected as a young child. The behaviorist who would be most interested in this matter would probably be ___.

Answer:

Skinner

Question 7: The most critical factor in determining expert performance is ___.

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deliberate practice Question 8: If I want to convince someone that his habit of watching television shows each evening is causing his insomnia, it would be best to use which type of design?

Answer:

reversal

Question 9: interval recording

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The measurement of whether or not a behavior occurs within a series of continuous intervals. (Note that the number of times that the behavior occurs within each interval is irrelevant)

Question 10: case study approach

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A descriptive research approach that involves intensive examination of one or a few individuals

Question 11: temporal contiguity

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The extent to which events occur close together in time

Question 12: behaviorism

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A natural science approach to psychology that traditionally focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable behavior

Question 13: Rate of response is a favorite measure of behavior for some researchers because it is ___.

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a very sensitive measure of behavior Question 14: According to the notion of ___, behavior, environment and internal events (person variables) all influence each other.

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reciprocal determinism Question 15: Which school of psychology was the immediate predecessor to behaviorism?

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functionalism

Question 16: countercontrol

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The deliberate manipulation of environmental events to alter their impact on our behavior Question 17: I watch television for several one hour periods randomly dispersed throughout the month. Each time I watch it, I also make a note of whether at least one murder was depicted during that period of time. This is a(n) ___ design.

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time sample

Question 18: A common control procedure in a control group design is ___.

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random assignment of subjects to groups.Question 19: Jonah's piano teacher is trying to get him to shorten the time it takes to play a Beethoven sonata. The appropriate behavioral measure is therefore ___.

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speed

Question 20: Natural selection leads to changes in a species because ___.

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some individuals reproduce more than others Question 21: Bruce decides to first reduce his tendency to smack his lips, then his tendency to spit on the road, and then finally his tendency to swear. What type research design is he employing to measure his improvement?

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multiple-baseline across behaviors Question 22: In the method of ___, experimental subjects try to accurately describe their inner thoughts and emotions.

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introspection Question 23: As I watch television for a four hour stretch one evening, I record the number of aggressive incidents that occur during each one hour period. I am taking a(n) ___ measure of behavior.

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rate Question 24: Which approach to behaviorism views behavior as very machine-like, with specific responses becoming attached to specific stimuli?

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neobehaviorism

Question 25: changing-criterion design

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A type of single-subject design in which the effect of the treatment is demonstrated by how closely the behavior matches a criterion that is systematically altered

Question 26: contingency

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A predictive relationship between two events such that the occurrence of one event predicts the probable occurrence of the other