1. Walden II (1948) described
a. a laboratory of the future in which
people were the subjects of experiments and animals are the experimenters
b. a story of the demise of mentalism
c. a autobiographical novel by Skinner,
disclosing his contempt for non-behaviorists
d. a book about a utopian society
in which punishment is shunned and rewards guide people to full exploitation
of their skills
2. Skinner was wrongly charged with
a. being an environmentalist
b. believing in the importance of
consequences
c. advocating coercive control of
behavior
d. proposing a utopian society based
on operant principles
3. According to Skinner, contingent means
a. independence of events
b. whether events are separated in
time or occur together
c. inhibition of one event by another
d. dependence of an event on the prior
occurrence of another event
4. Rudy has learned from his mother that physical punishment
is a way to control people. How does it show up in his behavior?
a. he has become very good at verbally
persuading his sister to give him his way
b. he uses physical violence and threats
of violence to control his sister
c. he displaces his aggression onto
the little boy next door
d. he turns his aggression inward
by mutilating himself
5. When Aliza hits Rudy in retaliation for his attack
on her, what has she become?
a. a "bad mother"
b. a fool: she should have hit him
BEFORE he hit her
c. a model who teaches aggressiveness
to Rudy
d. a hostile/aggressive personality
type
6. In Rudy's case, which of the following represents the
degree to which the conditions that must hold if threat of punishment is
to effectively deter future aggression are actually in force?
a. in Rudy's case, all the conditions
that must be met to deter future aggression are in force
b. in Rudy's case, none of the conditions
that must be met to deter future aggression are in force
c. in Rudy's case, only the condition
"punishment must be severe" is in force
d. in Rudy's case, only the condition
"the potential aggressor must not be very angry" is in force
7. What was Skinner's relationship with Debs, the baby
in the box?
a. strained
b. uneven; she never forgave him for
rearing her in a box
c. distant
d. warm and close
8. What is the way we recognize Skiiner's view of freedom,
that is not fully recogniaed?
a. the freedom to determine our own
behaviors in an absolute sense
b. the freedom to think any thought
we wish and have it determine our behaviors
c. the attribution of our own behaviors
to our enviroment
d. the freedom to determine the consequences
of our responses without arranging contingencies in our environments
9. Which of the following is one of Skinner's ideas?
a. psychotherapy
b. reverse psychology
c. common sense applied to science
d. time out
10. Skinner coined the term
a. psychosis
b. classical conditioning
c. instrumental conditioning
d. behavior therapy