Which of the following statements is true about primary reinforcers?
A) They acquire their value through association with established reinforcers.
B) They are effective on the basis of their learning.
C) They can also be called conditioned reinforcers.
D) They are effective because of an organism's biological makeup.
D
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The first step in the treatment of a problem behavior is to:
a. eliminate the reinforcer for the problem behavior b. conduct a functional assessment c. select a punisher that will be effective in decreasing the problem behavior d. remove the antecedents that are increasing the likelihood of the behavior occurring
Perky's imagery study (1910) had participants describe images of objects that were dimly projected onto a screen. The significance of Perky's results was that
A. screen images interfered with people's ability to form mental images. B. people were influenced by the projected images when forming their mental images, even when they were unaware that the projected images were present. C. the screen images had no effect on people's mental images. D. people "used" the screen images to create their mental images but only when the objects were unfamiliar.
When a person is not prejudiced at a conscious level, but unknowingly acts in a way that expresses dislike of another person because of that person's group membership, that person's prejudice is:
a. explicit b. rational c. implicit d. irrational
A correlation is a numerical measure of the ________
a. unintended changes in subjects' behavior due to cues from the experimenter. b. strength of the relationship between two variables. c. behaviors of subjects of different ages compared at a given time. d. behaviors of subjects followed and periodically assessed over time.