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Undergradtuate PSY236 - Learning Quiz on Week 5 - Extinction, Punishment and Aversive Learning, created by Daniel Whiting on 20/09/2017.

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Week 5 - Extinction, Punishment and Aversive Learning

Question 1 of 11

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What are the two main effects that extinction behaviours have on an operant behaviour?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rate of responding decreases

  • Behaviour variability increases

  • Behaviour variability decreases

  • Rate of responding increases

  • Behaviour is unlearned

Explanation

Question 2 of 11

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Resurgence is when...

Select one of the following:

  • A behaviour that used to produce reinforcement in the past reappears.

  • A behaviour extinguished in one context remains present in a novel context.

  • The conditioned response returns after a presentation of the US by itself.

  • There is an uprising like in the Divergence movies.

Explanation

Question 3 of 11

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Which of the following factors influence the rate of extinction?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Schedule of reinforcement

  • Length of previous training

  • History of reinforcement

  • Deprivation

  • Delay of reinforcer

  • Type of animal being tested

Explanation

Question 4 of 11

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When a conditioned behaviour is extinguished in one context but remains present in another context, this is called...

Select one of the following:

  • Renewal

  • Resurgence

  • Rapid reacquisition

  • Reinstatement

Explanation

Question 5 of 11

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Reinstatement is when...

Select one of the following:

  • The presentation of a US on its own brings back a conditioned response.

  • The presentation of a CR on its own brings back the conditioned response.

  • When a behaviour is extinguished in one context but remains in another.

  • When behaviours that previously earned a reinforcer appear during extinction.

Explanation

Question 6 of 11

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Extinction is context specific because it is...

Select one of the following:

  • The second thing learned

  • Inhibitory learning

  • The first thing learned

  • Excitatory learning

  • Dependent on so many factors

Explanation

Question 7 of 11

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Which of the following is more preferable for changing unwanted behaviour?

Select one of the following:

  • Positive punishment

  • Negative punishment

  • Positive reinforcement

  • Negative reinforcement

Explanation

Question 8 of 11

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: Preventing delivery of an aversive stimulus

: Getting away from a current aversive stimulus

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Avoidance
    Escape
    Exctinction
    Punishment

Explanation

Question 9 of 11

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In the 2 process theory of avoidance learning, the avoidance response of escaping is considered to be what?

Select one of the following:

  • Negative reinforcement

  • Positive reinforcement

  • Unconditioned response

  • Conditioned response

  • Conditioned stimulus

Explanation

Question 10 of 11

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A problem for the two factor theory of avoidance learning is that a subject can learn avoidance without a CS. What is this called?

Select one of the following:

  • Sidman free operant

  • One factor theory

  • Inhibitory escape theory

  • Escape learning theory

Explanation

Question 11 of 11

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Rescorla & Lolordo found that in avoidance learning...

Select one or more of the following:

  • CS+ can amplify avoidance

  • CS+ can reduce avoidance

  • CS- can reduce avoidance

  • CS- can amplify avoidance

  • R+ can amplify avoidance

  • D+ does nothing to avoidance behaviour

Explanation

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