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EAB 3002

CHAPTER 7

1)Extinction often increases the frequency of emotional behavior.

2. Although important, the matching law is restricted to a narrow range of species, responses, reinforcers, and reinforcement schedules.
3. Post-reinforcement pauses are now often referred to as                      .
4. When a response is placed on extinction, there is often an increase in emotional behavior.
5. Bill spends his summer in the city panhandling. Every day he takes a position on a busy corner and accosts passerby saying, “Can you spare some change?” Most people ignore him, but every now and then someone gives him money. Bill’s reinforcement schedule is best described as a           .
6. The schedule to use if you want to produce the most rapid learning of new behavior is    .
7. Studies of choice involve                  .
8. One difference between FT and FI schedules is that in FT schedules, reinforcement is not contingent on a behavior.