Behavior Analysis Trivia
From Pavlov's drooling dogs to your own questionable $9.99 impulse buys, prove you're the alpha of operant conditioning.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
What highly intelligent family of birds, including ravens and crows, is known for gathering in large groups to perform "funeral" rituals around their dead?
Corvids
What type of psychological treatment involves facing a feared stimulus in a safe environment to help extinguish a phobia or PTSD response?
Exposure therapy
In Stanley Milgram's famous obedience experiment, what specific piece of clothing did the experimenter wear to convey scientific authority and legitimacy?
Lab coat
In behavior analysis, what type of reinforcement schedule describes rewarding an action only some of the time, making the behavior much more resistant to extinction?
Intermittent
In Harry Harlow's famous study of attachment, infant rhesus monkeys preferred which surrogate mother over a wire one that provided milk?
The cloth mother