PSY 205 FINAL PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
You develop stimulus control through the process of
1. punishment
2. extinction
3. reinforcement
4. stimulus discrimination training - Answers - 4. stimulus discrimination training
If you provide a reinforcer when a rat presses a lever when a green light is on and, as a
result, it also presses the lever when a similar color light is on (green/blue for example),
__________ has occurred.
1. extinction
2. reinforcement
3. stimulus control
4. generalization - Answers - 4. generalization
A __________ involves a relationship among an antecedent stimulus, a behavior, and
the consequence of the behavior.
1. schedule of reinforcement
2. extinction burst
3. three-term contingency
4. discriminative stimulus - Answers - 3. three-term contingency
A behavior is more likely to occur when a specific antecedent stimulus is present. What
principle does this describe?
1. situation awareness
2. situation control
3. all of these
4. stimulus control - Answers - 4. stimulus control
When a neutral stimulus is paired with a US, the neutral stimulus becomes a CS that
elicits a CR. This process is called
1. respondent conditioning
2. discrimination training
3. operant conditioning
4. stimulus control - Answers - 1. respondent conditioning
In which type of conditioning does the neutral stimulus precede the US and overlap with
the US?
1. trace conditioning
2. delay conditioning
3. backward conditioning
, 4. simultaneous conditioning - Answers - 2. delay conditioning
When food is in the mouth the person salivates. This is an example of
1. a CS and a UR
2. a CS and a CR
3. a US and a CR
4. a US and a UR - Answers - 4. a US and a UR
__________ behaviors are controlled by their consequences and __________
behaviors are controlled by antecedent stimuli
1. operant; respondent
2. respondent; operant
3. intentional and unintentional
4. both respondent; operant AND intentional; unintentional - Answers - 1. operant;
respondent
An abolishing operation (AO)
1. makes a behavior less likely
2. all of these
3. is a type of motivating operation
4. makes a reinforcer less potent - Answers - 2. all of these
EOs and AOs are important because they are major influences on the effectiveness of
1. extinction
2. punishment
3. reinforcement
4. abatement
5. magnitude
6. immediacy - Answers - 3. reinforcement
What is an example of an establishing operation used in the textbook?
1. instructions for a new table call for a screwdriver
2. the reinforcing value of water is altered after running six miles
3. all of the options listed are examples
4. the reinforcing value of pennies is altered because there is a copper shortage
5. deprivation - Answers - 3. all of the options listed are examples
Which antecedent control procedure is illustrated in this example? To make it more
likely that she would work out in the student recreation center at noon, Melissa
scheduled a class before noon at a building next to the recreation center
1. decrease response effort
2. increase response effort
3. remove the SD
4. present an EO - Answers - 1. decrease response effort
Antecedent control procedures
ANSWERS
You develop stimulus control through the process of
1. punishment
2. extinction
3. reinforcement
4. stimulus discrimination training - Answers - 4. stimulus discrimination training
If you provide a reinforcer when a rat presses a lever when a green light is on and, as a
result, it also presses the lever when a similar color light is on (green/blue for example),
__________ has occurred.
1. extinction
2. reinforcement
3. stimulus control
4. generalization - Answers - 4. generalization
A __________ involves a relationship among an antecedent stimulus, a behavior, and
the consequence of the behavior.
1. schedule of reinforcement
2. extinction burst
3. three-term contingency
4. discriminative stimulus - Answers - 3. three-term contingency
A behavior is more likely to occur when a specific antecedent stimulus is present. What
principle does this describe?
1. situation awareness
2. situation control
3. all of these
4. stimulus control - Answers - 4. stimulus control
When a neutral stimulus is paired with a US, the neutral stimulus becomes a CS that
elicits a CR. This process is called
1. respondent conditioning
2. discrimination training
3. operant conditioning
4. stimulus control - Answers - 1. respondent conditioning
In which type of conditioning does the neutral stimulus precede the US and overlap with
the US?
1. trace conditioning
2. delay conditioning
3. backward conditioning
, 4. simultaneous conditioning - Answers - 2. delay conditioning
When food is in the mouth the person salivates. This is an example of
1. a CS and a UR
2. a CS and a CR
3. a US and a CR
4. a US and a UR - Answers - 4. a US and a UR
__________ behaviors are controlled by their consequences and __________
behaviors are controlled by antecedent stimuli
1. operant; respondent
2. respondent; operant
3. intentional and unintentional
4. both respondent; operant AND intentional; unintentional - Answers - 1. operant;
respondent
An abolishing operation (AO)
1. makes a behavior less likely
2. all of these
3. is a type of motivating operation
4. makes a reinforcer less potent - Answers - 2. all of these
EOs and AOs are important because they are major influences on the effectiveness of
1. extinction
2. punishment
3. reinforcement
4. abatement
5. magnitude
6. immediacy - Answers - 3. reinforcement
What is an example of an establishing operation used in the textbook?
1. instructions for a new table call for a screwdriver
2. the reinforcing value of water is altered after running six miles
3. all of the options listed are examples
4. the reinforcing value of pennies is altered because there is a copper shortage
5. deprivation - Answers - 3. all of the options listed are examples
Which antecedent control procedure is illustrated in this example? To make it more
likely that she would work out in the student recreation center at noon, Melissa
scheduled a class before noon at a building next to the recreation center
1. decrease response effort
2. increase response effort
3. remove the SD
4. present an EO - Answers - 1. decrease response effort
Antecedent control procedures
