Theories of Personality: A Behavioral View
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| show | did not offer a personality theory at all.
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| The essential truth about B. F. Skinner's research is that | show 🗑
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| show | made no references to internal, subjective accounts for behavior.
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| show | empty organisms.
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| show | behavior.
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| Skinner rejected ____ as a valid personality characteristic. | show 🗑
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| show | irrelevant for mental activities.
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| show | rats and pigeons.
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| Skinner's research subjects were mainly | show 🗑
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| show | has wide practical applications.
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| show | used in schools, correctional institutions, and hospitals.
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| show | parental warnings that influenced his adult behavior.
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| show | constructing mechanical devices.
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| Skinner was taught by his parents to | show 🗑
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| At age 22, Skinner experienced | show 🗑
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| show | decided he would study human behavior by the methods of science rather than the methods of fiction.
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| show | life is controlled by positive reinforcement.
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| show | its consequences.
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| When a specific stimulus elicits a response, it is called | show 🗑
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| show | reinforcement is necessary for learning.
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| show | all of the answers.
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| To condition a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell, Pavlov | show 🗑
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| Skinner's term for voluntary, explorative behavior is | show 🗑
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| According to Skinner, operant behavior | show 🗑
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| show | elicited
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| According to Skinner, parental disapproval of a child's behavior will | show 🗑
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| Skinner believed that personality is a(n) | show 🗑
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| In Skinner’s research, food-deprived rats pressed a lever to receive a food pellet. The rat will eventually press the lever | show 🗑
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| The _______ becomes the reinforcer for the rat to receive a reward for his behavior. | show 🗑
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| show | eventually stopped pressing the lever.
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| show | reinforcement is unrelated to the number of responses.
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| An employee paid on a weekly basis operates under a ____ schedule of reinforcement. | show 🗑
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| In a fixed-interval reinforcement schedule, if the interval between reinforcements is shortened the response rate will | show 🗑
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| Compared to fixed-interval schedules, fixed-ratio schedules | show 🗑
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| Slot machines operate on a ____ schedule of reinforcement. | show 🗑
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| A good example of a variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement is | show 🗑
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| show | successive approximation.
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| The secret to shaping behavior is | show 🗑
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| The successive approximation method | show 🗑
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| show | short intervals between reinforcements.
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| show | control of external variables that determine behavior.
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| Skinner suggests all of the following techniques of self-control except | show 🗑
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| show | there was a dramatic increase in appropriate patient behaviors.
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| In a token economy experiment, psychotic patients | show 🗑
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| Behavior modified in a token economy | show 🗑
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| show | ignored.
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| show | only positive reinforcement.
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| For changing behavior, Skinner believed punishment is | show 🗑
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| show | spanking a child to make him stop using curse words.
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| show | less effective than positive reinforcement.
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| According to Skinner, human behavior is controlled by | show 🗑
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| Skinner believed people function | show 🗑
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| Skinner believed people are not responsible for their actions, because | show 🗑
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| show | We are controlled by the environment, but we can control ourselves by changing the environment.
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| Skinner's assessment techniques include | show 🗑
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| show | free association, dream analysis, and projective techniques.
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| show | the motivation behind the behavior.
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| show | all of these
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| show | it is necessary to first assess specific behaviors.
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| Skinner's methodological approach to the study of behavior is to | show 🗑
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| show | preferred the intensive study of a single subject at a time.
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| show | statistical analysis
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| show | Operant conditioning cannot change behavior.
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