PSYC 340 Final Exam New Material UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which theory views the avoidance of shock as critical to the reinforcement of avoidance behavior? - CORRECT
ANSWER Shock-frequency reduction theory
Suppose you want to train a puppy to stop chewing your shoes. Which will result in greatest response? - CORRECT
ANSWER Loud noise and remove shoe, then give him a toy.
The reduction of fear to the shock-avoidance CS that accompanies extended avoidance training: - CORRECT
ANSWER Has no real effect on avoidance response
If a soda machine fails after once or twice a participant will no longer use the machine, but a participant at a slot machine
will continue trials after many failed attempts. this is explained by: - CORRECT ANSWER The partial
reinforcement extinction effect
The theory that the partial reinforcement extinction effect is due to a subjects inability to notice when extinction
procedures have begun is: - CORRECT ANSWER Discrimination hypothesis
Suppose Betty wants to extinguish her friend's bad behavior of biting his nails. She should conduct extinction trials: -
CORRECT ANSWER Everywhere, every context possible
If you wish to quickly and permanently suppress behavior through punishment, you should: - CORRECT
ANSWER Initially use strong and longer aversive stimuli
The theory that assumes that during intermittent reinforcement training, the memory of nonreward becomes a cue for
performing the instrumental response is: - CORRECT ANSWER Sequential theory
Bechterev had human subjects place their fingers on a shock plate, signaled with a warning CS, and then delivered a brief
shock. He noticed that after a few trials, subjects were lifting their fingers from the plate in response to the CS, thus
reducing the shock US. This experiment is best characterized as an investigation of: - CORRECT ANSWER Active
avoidance
The term for the emotional reaction to withdrawal of an expected reward is: - CORRECT ANSWER Frustration
Reinstatement of an extinguished response to a CS involves: - CORRECT ANSWER Exposing the participant to
the US
In a flooding procedure the subject is: - CORRECT ANSWER Exposed to CS but unable to make avoidance
response
During avoidance training, subjects are also given periodic conditioned suppression tests with the shock-avoidance CS.
With extended avoidance training, response suppression: - CORRECT ANSWER Decreases
The goal of escape from fear experiments is to explore the separate contributions to avoidance behavior in which types of
conditioning: - CORRECT ANSWER Operant and Classical conditioning
The first component of the two-process theory of avoidance is: - CORRECT ANSWER Classical conditioning of
fear to the CS
What is the second component of the two-process theory? - CORRECT ANSWER Operant reinforcement of the
avoidance response through fear reduction
The difference between a escape trial and an avoidance trial is that: - CORRECT ANSWER The aversive US is
always delivered during an escape trial but not in an avoidance trial
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which theory views the avoidance of shock as critical to the reinforcement of avoidance behavior? - CORRECT
ANSWER Shock-frequency reduction theory
Suppose you want to train a puppy to stop chewing your shoes. Which will result in greatest response? - CORRECT
ANSWER Loud noise and remove shoe, then give him a toy.
The reduction of fear to the shock-avoidance CS that accompanies extended avoidance training: - CORRECT
ANSWER Has no real effect on avoidance response
If a soda machine fails after once or twice a participant will no longer use the machine, but a participant at a slot machine
will continue trials after many failed attempts. this is explained by: - CORRECT ANSWER The partial
reinforcement extinction effect
The theory that the partial reinforcement extinction effect is due to a subjects inability to notice when extinction
procedures have begun is: - CORRECT ANSWER Discrimination hypothesis
Suppose Betty wants to extinguish her friend's bad behavior of biting his nails. She should conduct extinction trials: -
CORRECT ANSWER Everywhere, every context possible
If you wish to quickly and permanently suppress behavior through punishment, you should: - CORRECT
ANSWER Initially use strong and longer aversive stimuli
The theory that assumes that during intermittent reinforcement training, the memory of nonreward becomes a cue for
performing the instrumental response is: - CORRECT ANSWER Sequential theory
Bechterev had human subjects place their fingers on a shock plate, signaled with a warning CS, and then delivered a brief
shock. He noticed that after a few trials, subjects were lifting their fingers from the plate in response to the CS, thus
reducing the shock US. This experiment is best characterized as an investigation of: - CORRECT ANSWER Active
avoidance
The term for the emotional reaction to withdrawal of an expected reward is: - CORRECT ANSWER Frustration
Reinstatement of an extinguished response to a CS involves: - CORRECT ANSWER Exposing the participant to
the US
In a flooding procedure the subject is: - CORRECT ANSWER Exposed to CS but unable to make avoidance
response
During avoidance training, subjects are also given periodic conditioned suppression tests with the shock-avoidance CS.
With extended avoidance training, response suppression: - CORRECT ANSWER Decreases
The goal of escape from fear experiments is to explore the separate contributions to avoidance behavior in which types of
conditioning: - CORRECT ANSWER Operant and Classical conditioning
The first component of the two-process theory of avoidance is: - CORRECT ANSWER Classical conditioning of
fear to the CS
What is the second component of the two-process theory? - CORRECT ANSWER Operant reinforcement of the
avoidance response through fear reduction
The difference between a escape trial and an avoidance trial is that: - CORRECT ANSWER The aversive US is
always delivered during an escape trial but not in an avoidance trial
