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Question 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5Question 6Question 7Question 8Question 9Question 10Question 11Question 12Question 13Question 14Question 15Question 16Question 17Question 18Question 19Question 20Question 21Question 22Question 23Question 24Question 25Question 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5Question 6Question 7Question 8Question 9Question 10Question 11Question 12Question 13Question 14Question 15Question 16Question 17Question 18Question 19Question 20Question 21Question 22Question 23Question 24Question 25- Question 12 out of 2 points Farmer Gable had a problem with motorcyclists riding across his meadow land, tearing up sod and frightening his cattle. He installed barbed wire fencing in the area and no longer had a problem. Gable's approach is bestdescribed as an example of ____.AnswerSelected Answer: response prevention- Question 20 out of 2 points David Camp and colleagues found that even a delay of only ____ reduced the effectiveness of a punisher. ____.AnswerSelected Answer: 10 seconds- Question 32 out of 2 points Although punishment can have negative side effects, there is evidence that it can also have positive side effects.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 40 out of 2 points The one-process theory of punishment goes back to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Skinner- Question 52 out of 2 points Punishers, like reinforcers, are defined by their effect on behavior.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 62 out of 2 points Delaying delivery of a punisher is most likely to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: reduce itseffectiveness- Question 72 out of 2 points One way to make punishment more effective is to provide an alternative means of obtaining reinforcement.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 80 out of 2 points Of the following, the person who most approved of the use of punishment was probably ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Skinner- Question 92 out of 2 points Frequent use of weak punishers is more effective than occasional use of intense punishers.AnswerSelected Answer: False- Question 102 out of 2 points Each time Charles, who has a lisp, says "Mithithippi" or the like, his wife, Evelyn, yells, "Idiot!" However, there is no evidence that Evelyn's efforts to reduce the frequency of such mispronunciations have been effective. We can therefore conclude that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Charles's behavior has not been punished- Question 110 out of 2 points Differential reinforcement is best used in combination with ____.AnswerSelected Answer: response prevention- Question 120 out of 2 points If Charles Catania's thinking about reinforcement is applied topunishment, we can say that all of the following are true of punishment except ____.AnswerSelected Answer: the decrease in strength must be the result of the behavior's consequence- Question 132 out of 2 points Harriet hears a noise in the kitchen and investigates. She finds the cookie jar in pieces on the floor and 5-year-old Willy standing nearby. Harriet knows what happened, but asks Willy anyway. Willy admits that he broke the jar while trying to get cookies. Harriet gives Willy a spanking. Willy is most likely to learn from this experience that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: it doesn't pay to tell the truth- Question 140 out of 2 points John gives his dog, Alfie (a yap hound), a bit of food whenever it goes 30 seconds without barking. Gradually, John increases the amount of quiet time required to earn food until finally the dog will go for hours without a yap. The procedure John used is best described as ____.AnswerSelected Answer: extinction- Question 152 out of 2 points When using punishment to suppress an undesirable behavior, it is important to provide alternative means of obtaining the reinforcers that have maintained that behavior.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 160 out of 2 points All of the following enhance the effectiveness of punishment except ____.AnswerSelected Answer: withholding reinforcement of the punished behavior- Question 172 out of 2 pointsIf a rat receives a shock each time it presses a lever, but not otherwise, we can say that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: the shock will reduce the frequency of lever pressing- Question 182 out of 2 points The use of punishers is so common that ____ concluded that "The world runs on fear."AnswerSelected Answer: Jack Michaels- Question 192 out of 2 points The word positive in positive punishment refers to the fact that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: something is added- Question 200 out of 2 points The term punishment, as used by behavior scientists, has nothing to do with retribution.AnswerSelected Answer: False- Question 212 out of 2 points One problem with extinction as a way of reducing the frequency of potentially harmful behavior is that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: the behavior on extinction sometimes increases at first- Question 222 out of 2 points Punishers are defined by ____.AnswerSelected Answer: their effects on behavior- Question 232 out of 2 points Abnormal behavior may persist despite aversive consequences because italso produces reinforcing consequences.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 240 out of 2 points Murray Sidman's book on aversive control, including punishment, is called____.AnswerSelected Answer: The End of Punishment- Question 252 out of 2 points An early theory of punishment proposed that response suppression occurred because aversives disrupt ongoing behavior.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 10 out of 2 points Murray Sidman's book on aversive control, including punishment, is called____.AnswerSelected Answer: The End of Punishment- Question 22 out of 2 points Delaying delivery of a punisher is most likely to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: reduce its effectiveness- Question 32 out of 2 points David Camp and colleagues found that, compared to a two-second delay in punishment, a 30-second delay resulted in ____.AnswerSelected Answer: about half as much responsesuppression- Question 42 out of 2 points Abnormal behavior may persist despite aversive consequences because italso produces reinforcing consequences.AnswerSelected Answer: True- Question 52 out of 2 points If Charles Catania's thinking about reinforcement is applied to punishment, we can say that all of the following are true of punishment except ____.AnswerSelected Answer: the consequence of the behavior must be negative- Question 62 out of 2 points Each time Charles, who has a lisp, says "Mithithippi" or the


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