Psych H U5 Test Practice 5

After a bad report card, a child is sent to his room without supper...Is taking away the child’s supper designed to increase or decrease the behavior of earning a bad report card?

• increase

• decrease

What would the taking away of supper be considered?

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive punishment

• Negative punishment

If you start your car without buckling the seat belt, an annoying sound is audible, and a red light flashes. Are the annoying sound and the red, flashing light designed to increase or decrease the behavior of buckling your seatbelt?

• increase

• decrease

What would the annoying sound and red, flashing light be considered?

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive punishment

• Negative punishment

What is a persistent and irrational fear of a specific situation, object, or activity?

• Phobia

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Counter-conditioning

What is it called when a person is exposed to the harmless stimulus until fear responses to that stimulus are extinguished?

• Phobia

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Counter-conditioning

What is it called when people are taught relaxation techniques, then are gradually exposed to the feared stimulus using the relaxation technique?

• Phobia

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Counter-conditioning

What is it called when a pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting the fear?

• Phobia

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Counter-conditioning

According to the principles of classical conditioning, one can develop a phobia by just watching someone else with a phobia react fearfully to a stimulus. For example, Margot’s mother has arachnophobia; she is horribly afraid of spiders. When Margot was a little girl, she used to observe her mother scream and run every time she saw a spider. Now as an adult, Margot herself is horribly afraid of spiders. What is the unconditioned stimulus?

• mother screaming at spiders

• distress at seeing mother screaming and running

• spiders

According to the principles of classical conditioning, one can develop a phobia by just watching someone else with a phobia react fearfully to a stimulus. For example, Margot’s mother has arachnophobia; she is horribly afraid of spiders. When Margot was a little girl, she used to observe her mother scream and run every time she saw a spider. Now as an adult, Margot herself is horribly afraid of spiders. What is the unconditioned response?

• mother screaming at spiders

• distress at seeing mother screaming and running

• spiders