Behavioural 9&10

Explaining animal behaviour in terms of human motives is ___________________________.

Novel behaviours can arise from trial-and-error, stimulus generalisation, and _______________________.

A dog looking 'guilty' could be negatively reinforced because __________________________.

When Epstein's pigeons were placed in the problem solving situation there was _________________________.

Keeping the Russian anti-tank dogs hungry created _______________________.

Performing novel behavioursin a situation that you've never been in before to produce certain consequences is _________________________.

The purpose of conducting a preference assessment for dogs such as in Vicars et al. (2014) is to identify stimuli that might serve as _________________________.

Vicars et al. (2014) used a paired stimulus preference assessment for dogs. This involved presenting pairs of stimuli from which the dogs could choose, an approach based on ______________________.

Martin et al. (2011) conducted a functional analysis on a chimpanzee's faeces throwing behaviour. They found that the chimpanzee was engaging in this behaviour ______________________________________.

Improving the quality of life of animals in captivity would NOT include __________________________ to manage difficult behaviour.

Which of the following does not produce novel behaviours?

Select the correct answer. Problem solving…

In Epstein’s (1985) study the pigeons…

I come home to find that my dog has destroyed my favourite shoes. The dog’s ears are flat and he avoids eye contact with me. The most likely explanation of this is:

Find the correct answer. In the original Epstein (1984) paper…

A chimp is taught some sign language but often mixes up the word order e.g. “water want” rather than “want water”. What is the most likely explanation?

Select the correct answer. In the study by Gardner (1969), Washoe the chimp was taught…

What function did the first words that Washoe developed have?

‘The dog bit me because it was angry’ is an anthropomorphism because:

What is problem solving from a behaviour analytic perspective?

Criminal profiling is a process by which evidence (particularly that found at a crime scene) is analysed to determine ________________ offender characteristics.

Kocsis, Hayes, and Irwin (2002) found the ___________________ was not a factor in the accuracy of profiling.

________________ assumes that offenders engaging in similar behaviours will display similar characteristics.

Ferguson (2013) suggested that there are only five relevant offender characteristics in a profile - motive, special skills or knowledge of methods and materials, relationship to the victim, ________________________, and criminal skill or forensic awareness.

One of the challenges is behaviour analysis of criminal behaviour is that often, the behaviours are _____________.

A challenge in teaching incarcerated offenders new behaviours whilst they are in prison is __________________________________.

Being sent to prison after committing a crime could be a _______________________________.

Committing crimes can be on _______________ schedule of reinforcement – sometimes you don’t get caught.

Schnelle et al. (1978) found that adding a helicopter decreased burglaries and the cash benefits outweighed the cost of the helicopter. The helicopter was most likely a _________________________.

Bassett and Blanchard (1977) found that the number of behaviours punished and the frequency of punishment increased when a prison token economy was unsupervised. This could have been because implementing punishment was a ____________________ for the behaviour of the guards running the token economy.