A student would like to change his study habits by applying what he knows about reinforcement contingencies to his routines. He has written down the basic rules that he plans to follow. All of the student's rules are correct EXCEPT for which one?
a. Carefully define the specific behavior you would like to change.
b. Make sure reinforcement is not contingent on the behavior you want to occur.
c. Define the discriminative stimuli that will control the behavior you want.
d. Try to extinguish your inappropriate behaviors.
Answer: b. Make sure reinforcement is not contingent on the behavior you want to occur.
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a. schizophrenia and schizoaffective personality disorder b. phobias, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder c. bipolar disorder and hypomania d. histrionic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder
Activating implicit memories by providing partial information that has been previously linked with them is known as
a. priming. b. chunking. c. constructive processing. d. eidetic imagery.
You walk into a classroom and see the words "process," "products," "direct," and "naturalistic" written on the blackboard. It is most likely that the previous class was discussing the topic of
a. interviews. b. self-reports. c. observations. d. questionnaires and surveys.
Occasionally a researcher will make use of highly sophisticated sampling techniques and still draw incorrect conclusions about the properties of a population. This is possible because of:
A) sampling error B) the problem of induction C) clustering D) an operational confound