Unit Five-Schedules of Reinforcement
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Integrative Essay
[Note: You will need to read Schedules Part II before you can fully answer the first two questions. You may wait until Tuesday, Oct. 27 to do these two if you wish.]
- Find a real-world example from
your own experience of elastic and inelastic reinforcers and describe
them. Describe why you think that each is the type of reinforcer
that you claim it to be. Why is this an important distinction?
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- Find a real-world example from
your own experience of an open economy and a closed economy and
describe them. Describe why you think that each is the type of
economy that you claim it to be. Why is this an important distinction?
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- Give a real-world example of each of the four basic schedules
of reinforcement (FI, VI, FR, VR). Explain why you think your
example is the sort of schedule you say it is. If your example
seems different than the simple schedules generated in the laboratory,
discuss how it is different, and if you think these differences
between the real world and the laboratory present a problem for
behavior theory.
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To Think About
- Both behaviorists and people in everyday discourse talk about
choice. How do behaviorists and 'common folk' differ in what they
mean by this term?