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What associations are learned during extinction? What evidence is there to support your answer?

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What are the two major behavioral effects of conducting an extinction procedure? Provide an example from everyday life to illustrate these effects.

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You have trained your goldfish to swim through a hoop placed in the tank by providing a dried fly every time it does so.Your little brother takes care of your fish for a week and forgets to give the fish any flies when it swims through the hoop when he puts it in the tank.If you were to test your fish for hoop swimming behavior and wanted to see the most responses,you should


A) wait a few days before putting the hoop in the tank.
B) test the fish immediately to counteract any forgetting.
C) test your fish immediately to counteract frustration.
D) buy a new fish and try again.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Sally put her money in the soda machine but nothing came out.To her brother's surprise,she gave the machine a powerful kick.You realize she was demonstrating


A) an extinction burst.
B) frustrative aggression.
C) the partial reinforcement extinction effect.
D) differential reinforcement of a low rate.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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According to experiments that demonstrate the restoration of extinction performance,


A) S-O associations are particularly susceptible to extinction.
B) spontaneous recovery cannot be altered.
C) spontaneous recovery is due to changes in the context due to the passage of time.
D) R-O associations are particularly susceptible to extinction.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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What are three paradoxical effects of extinction? How does the concept of frustration explain each effect?

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If after extinction trials a subject is exposed to the US,


A) there will be reinstatement of conditioned responding.
B) there will be further decreases of conditioned responding due to negative CS/US contingencies.
C) the initial CS-US relationship will be strengthened.
D) the context will lose excitatory strength.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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What effect does reinforcer devaluation have after extinction procedures? What does this tell us about what is,or is not,learned in extinction?

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Which of the following concepts is most like Newtonian physics?


A) behavioral momentum
B) frustration theory
C) sequential theory
D) discrimination theory

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Following 10 days of excitatory Pavlovian conditioning,subjects are given 15 extinction trials.Test trials of conditioned responding are then conducted.For one group,the test trials occurred immediately after extinction; for another,test trials were delayed for one week.What are the likely findings?


A) The delayed group showed less conditioned responding due to forgetting.
B) The delayed group showed less conditioned responding due to increased frustration.
C) The delayed group showed more conditioned responding.
D) The groups will not differ in the amount of conditioned responding.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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People stop putting money into soda machines after one or two non-reinforced trials,but will put money into slot machines over and over without any payoff.A likely explanation is


A) the extinction burst.
B) the partial reinforcement extinction effect.
C) the partial reinforcement burst.
D) frustrative aggression.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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To restore extinction performance,


A) test several days after the extinction trials.
B) present cues from the extinction trials.
C) present cues from the conditioning trials.
D) test in a different context.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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According to the discrimination hypothesis,the partial reinforcement extinction effect is due to


A) the extinction burst that occurs at the beginning of extinction trials.
B) learning to respond in the face of expected nonreward.
C) a subject's memories of whether or not it was rewarded for performing the instrumental response in the recent past.
D) a subject's decreased ability to notice when extinction procedures begin.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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What is behavioral momentum? What are two common findings from studies of behavioral momentum? What evidence challenges theories of behavioral momentum?

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Suppose Betty wants to extinguish her boyfriend's annoying habit of biting his toenails.She should conduct extinction trials


A) at home.
B) at a therapist's office.
C) alternating them with conditioning trials that reinforce his biting behavior.
D) in as many contexts as possible.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Extinction of a classically conditioned response occurs


A) with the passage of time.
B) when the subject becomes sensitized to the CR.
C) when the CS is presented without the US.
D) when the subject habituates to the UR.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The theory that the partial reinforcement extinction effect is due to learning to respond when nonreward is expected is


A) the frustration theory.
B) the sequential theory.
C) the discrimination hypothesis.
D) the fear-avoidance theory.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Two groups of rats are trained to press a lever for food on a constant reinforcement schedule.One group receives 1 piece of rat chow; the other,3 pieces.In extinction,


A) the 3-piece group will persist in responding longer.
B) the 1-piece group will persist in responding longer.
C) as long as the constraints on the lever are the same, the groups will persist approximately the same length of time.
D) It is impossible to predict.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Describe the partial reinforcement extinction effect and major explanations of the phenomenon.

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Excitatory conditioning is to _____ as extinction is to _____.


A) S-R; S-S
B) S-S; S-R
C) R-O; S-S
D) S-S; S-O

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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