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SPCE 609 COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EXAM 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS| ACE YOUR GRADES.
1. Behavioral economics involves the use of __________. -
correct answer -Economic principles to describe and analyze
behavioral choice
2. From a behavior analysis standpoint, drug addiction is the
product of __________. - correct answer -Operant choice
3. To investigate choice and preference, it is important that the
organism be presented with __________ schedules of
reinforcement. - correct answer -Concurrent
4. As relative rate of reinforcement __________, the relative rate
of response __________. - correct answer -Increases;
decreases
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5. Delay discounting involves decisions between __________ and
__________ rewards. - correct answer -Small, immediate;
large, delayed
6. A rat placed in a chamber with two response levers, each
operating on a variable-interval schedule and with one that
pays off approximately 5 reinforcers per minute and a second
that pays off approximately 10 reinforcers per minute, will most
likely distribute its behavior as: - correct answer -67% of
responses to the lever that gives 10 reinforcers per minute
7. Using the matching relation, predict the distribution of
responses between a key with a fixed-ratio 40 requirement and
one with a fixed-ratio 60: - correct answer -100% of responses
to the fixed-ratio 40 schedule
8. Backward chaining involves: - correct answer -Teaching the
final component or link first
9. On a chain schedule of reinforcement, the longer the delay
between the SD and the unconditioned reinforcement: - correct
answer -The less effective the SD as a conditioned reinforcer
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10. According to Skinner (1953), a generalized conditioned
reinforcer: - correct answer -Is produced by pairing a
conditioned reinforcer with more than one unconditioned
reinforcer
11. If you train a rat to receive a food pellet every time you play
a particular song, the foo pellet is __________ and the tune is
__________. - correct answer -An unconditioned reinforcer; a
conditioned reinforcer
12. Which of the following would reduce the effectiveness of a
conditioned reinforcer? - correct answer -Increase the delay
between the presentation of the conditioned and the
unconditioned reinforcer
13. Token economies are most effective at maintaining behavior
after the treatment program ends when they: - correct answer -
Are slowly and systematically faded
14. In terms of generalized imitation, which of the following are
true? - correct answer -Generalized imitation provides an
account of imitation after a delay
SPCE 609 COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EXAM 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS| ACE YOUR GRADES.
1. Behavioral economics involves the use of __________. -
correct answer -Economic principles to describe and analyze
behavioral choice
2. From a behavior analysis standpoint, drug addiction is the
product of __________. - correct answer -Operant choice
3. To investigate choice and preference, it is important that the
organism be presented with __________ schedules of
reinforcement. - correct answer -Concurrent
4. As relative rate of reinforcement __________, the relative rate
of response __________. - correct answer -Increases;
decreases
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5. Delay discounting involves decisions between __________ and
__________ rewards. - correct answer -Small, immediate;
large, delayed
6. A rat placed in a chamber with two response levers, each
operating on a variable-interval schedule and with one that
pays off approximately 5 reinforcers per minute and a second
that pays off approximately 10 reinforcers per minute, will most
likely distribute its behavior as: - correct answer -67% of
responses to the lever that gives 10 reinforcers per minute
7. Using the matching relation, predict the distribution of
responses between a key with a fixed-ratio 40 requirement and
one with a fixed-ratio 60: - correct answer -100% of responses
to the fixed-ratio 40 schedule
8. Backward chaining involves: - correct answer -Teaching the
final component or link first
9. On a chain schedule of reinforcement, the longer the delay
between the SD and the unconditioned reinforcement: - correct
answer -The less effective the SD as a conditioned reinforcer
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10. According to Skinner (1953), a generalized conditioned
reinforcer: - correct answer -Is produced by pairing a
conditioned reinforcer with more than one unconditioned
reinforcer
11. If you train a rat to receive a food pellet every time you play
a particular song, the foo pellet is __________ and the tune is
__________. - correct answer -An unconditioned reinforcer; a
conditioned reinforcer
12. Which of the following would reduce the effectiveness of a
conditioned reinforcer? - correct answer -Increase the delay
between the presentation of the conditioned and the
unconditioned reinforcer
13. Token economies are most effective at maintaining behavior
after the treatment program ends when they: - correct answer -
Are slowly and systematically faded
14. In terms of generalized imitation, which of the following are
true? - correct answer -Generalized imitation provides an
account of imitation after a delay
