1. Did B. F. Skinner offer a theory of "personality" as such? Why or why not?

2 For Skinner, the substitution of instinctive behaviors for reinforced behaviors is called:

3. Today, the strongest challenge to Skinner's position comes from .

4. For almost every explanation of personality in this book, Skinner would substitute .

5. Skinner argued that a scientific psychology can deal only with what kinds of variables?

6. What are the major criticisms of Skinner's system?

7. In explaining behavior, what importance did Skinner give to physiological processes?

8. What kinds of subjects did Skinner use in his research?

9. What are the stages in Skinner's single-subject experimental design?

10. What is the sign approach to personality assessment?

11. How useful has Skinner's behavioral approach been?

12. For Skinner, people are products of .

13. What influences from his parenting does Skinner acknowledge?

14. We get a glimpse of Skinner's later work in his childhood love of .

15. Skinner's decision to study psychology was influenced by the work of .

16. What major experience did Skinner have at age 22?

17. What techniques do. Skinnerians use to assess behavior (not personality)?

18. What is the dominant feature of the fictional community of Walden Two?

19. What is involved in functional analysis?

20. Skinner believed that behavior can be controlled by .

21. What did Ivan Pavlov demonstrate in his famous salivating dog experiment?

22. What is involved in Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning?

23. When a specific stimulus elicits a response it is called .

24. How did Pavlov condition a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell?

25. What are the characteristics of respondent behavior?

26. Skinner's term for voluntary, explorative, purposive behavior is .

27. What are the characteristics of operant behavior?

28. A rat pressing a lever in a Skinner box exhibits _______ behavior

29. What are the characteristics of Skinner's image of human nature?

30. Skinner believed that personality is a/n .

31. Skinner discovered the principle of reinforcement schedules the day he .

32. Skinner says people are not responsible for their actions, because .

33. When Skinner failed to reinforce rats in a Skinner box continuously, the rats .

34. What is involved in fixed-interval reinforcement?

35. An employee paid on a weekly basis operates under a _______ schedule of reinforcement

36. In a fixed-interval reinforcement schedule, if the interval between reinforcements is shortened the response rate will

37. Which produces higher response rates, fixed-interval schedules or fixed-ratio schedules?

38. Slot machines operate on a _______ schedule of reinforcement.

39. What are the characteristics of a variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement?

40. Shaping a behavior that is not likely to occur spontaneously is accomplished by .

41. According to Skinner, how effective is negative reinforcement?

42. According to Skinner, human behavior is determined by .

43. What techniques of self-control does Skinner advocate?

44. To Skinner, self-control means .

45. What happened when a token economy was instituted in a psychiatric hospital?

46. In a token economy experiment, what were the effects on patients?

47. What is the long-term effect of behavior modified in a token economy?

48. In behavior modification therapy, unconscious forces are .

49. Skinner advocated using what kind of reinforcement in behavior management?

50. For changing behavior, Skinner believed punishment is .

51.How is negative reinforcement defined?