A Problem for the Two-Factor Theory of Avoidance Learning Is

question 36

Multiple Choice

A problem for the two-factor theory of avoidance learning is that:

• A) the avoidance response should extinguish easily, but it does not.
• B) the avoidance response should be hard to extinguish, but it is easy to extinguish.
• C) it is usually too hard for an organism to learn a conditioned emotional response.
• D) classical and operant conditioning cannot both operate at the same time.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Therapies

Psychological treatments that focus on changing faulty or irrational thinking patterns, beliefs, and attitudes.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic method used to cure phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, by gradual exposure to the feared object or situation in a controlled environment.

Token Economy

An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for privileges or treats.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).