Domjan Ch. 10 Study Questions

Aversive Control of Behavior

<>P. 280 What is the difference between passive avoidance and active avoidance?

P.282 Describe a discriminated avoidance procedure

What is the difference between avoidance and escape?

P.283 What is a shuttle box?

P. 284 Describe the two-process theory of avoidance.

P. 284  What is an "acquired drive" experiment?  How do these experiments relate to two-process theory of avoidance?

P. 288-9 How does fear of the CS change with extensive discriminated avoidance training?

P. 290 Why might you expect that performance in avoidance conditioning will be cyclical, with a series of increases then decreases in performance level? How does the “conservation of fear” theory explain why this doesn’t usually happen, in fact.

P. 284 Describe flooding.

P. 285 Which brain nucleus is the locus of fear conditioning?

<>P. 296 What is a safety signal?


P. 303 -5 & 307-8 If punishment is signalled, how does responding in the absense of the signal change?  Does it change a lot or a little? Think of a real-life situation where this might apply.


P.305-6 What is the effect of delayed punishment?