Brian finds that he wins more money and plays longer at the blackjack tables, than he does at the slot machines, where he has lost all his money quickly when he has visited casinos. Given this information, Brian’s tendency to sit at the blackjack tables rather than at the slot machines is _________ behavior.
All of the following are types of reinforcement, except:
All of the following are types of reinforcement, except:
Which type of behaviorism rejects the study of verbal behavi…
Which type of behaviorism rejects the study of verbal behavior and private events?
An organism’s set of unconditioned reflex responses – such a…
An organism’s set of unconditioned reflex responses – such as salivating to food– are behaviors which can occur even in newborn infants, without any prior learning being necessary. These behaviors are primarily under the control of which of the determinants of behavior?
Identify the example(s) of behavior below: X = An amoeba is…
Identify the example(s) of behavior below: X = An amoeba is swimming toward warmer water Y = Bob is swimming toward the shore
Which of the following statements is not correctly phrased?
Which of the following statements is not correctly phrased?
The tendency of a stimulus to elicit a reflex response short…
The tendency of a stimulus to elicit a reflex response shortly after the elicitation of that response by a different stimulus is:
Omnibus terms:
Omnibus terms:
A property of behavior is
A property of behavior is
Billy “threatened to hurt his brother” 3 times in one hour. …
Billy “threatened to hurt his brother” 3 times in one hour. This number, “3 times in an hour” represents a dimensional quantity whose measurement is always given as / – (which can also be phrased as: “response cycles per unit of time”). This dimensional quantity is: