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66) A researcher trains a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. Then he turns the lights on just before he sounds the bell. If he continues to do this until the dog starts to salivate as soon as the lights go on, he has demonstrated:

a) latent learning                       

b) insight

c) second-order conditioning   

d) extinction

c

67) An intermittent schedule of reinforcement that reinforces behavior after an average, but unpredictable, amount of time has passed is called a ………   ,   …………. schedule.

a) fixed ratio                   

b) variable ratio

c) fixed interval              

d) variable interval

d

68) Food is to ………reinforcer as money is to …… reinforcer.

a) positive, negative        

b)  negative, positive

c) primary, secondary   

d) secondary, primary

c

69) To encourage children to enjoy arithmetic, you should:

a) punish them when they make a mistake

b) reward them every time they get an answer right

c) sometimes surprise them with a reward when they get an answer right  

d)  ignore them

c

70) Taking away a person’s car after they have been caught speeding would be an example of:

a) positive punishment   

b) negative punishment

c) positive reinforcement           

d) negative reinforcement

b

71) Insight learning was proposed by………..

a) Edward C. Toman       

b) Kurt Lewin

c) Max Wertheimer       

d) Wolfgang Kohler

d