This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Conditioning > Operant Conditioning – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Operant Conditioning Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You have a headache. You take an Advil and the pain goes away. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Reinforcement. 2. An employee exhibits bad behavior at work and the boss criticizes him A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 3. Owner plays with puppy even though he bites A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Reinforcement. 4. Negative reinforcement is A) The removal of something unpleasant. B) The addition of something unpleasant. C) The removal of the conditioned stimulus. D) The addition of acquisition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The removal of something unpleasant. 5. James hits his sibling and has to stand in the corner this is an example of A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 6. The process that ..... the likelihood of a behavior occurring again is most appropriately called ..... A) Increases, Trial and Error Learning. B) Decreases, Shaping. C) Increases, Reinforcement. D) Decreases, Active Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increases, Reinforcement. 7. Giving the students a star next to their names on the chart for working quietly is an example of A) Punishment. B) Response cost. C) Positive reinforcement. D) Negative reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive reinforcement. 8. Behavior:Sally can't give an exampleConsequence:She fails the assignementThe consequence is an example of A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Response cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive punishment. 9. Who created the Operant Conditioning Chamber? A) Edward Tolman. B) John Garcia. C) BF Skinner. D) Ivan Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) BF Skinner. 10. Which of the following is a primary reinforcer for humans? A) Money. B) A book. C) The sound of a bell. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food. 11. Small successive step taken in which to get an organism to learn a behavior is called ..... A) Shaping. B) Continuous Reinforcement. C) Positive Reinforcement. D) Partial Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaping. 12. Negative reinforcement ..... the rate of a response; punishment ..... the rate of a response. A) Increases; decreases. B) Decreases; increases. C) Decreases; decreases. D) Increases; does not affect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases; decreases. 13. After 6 tardies, you go on the detention list. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Negative Punishment. D) Positive Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive Punishment. 14. This occurs when we stop what we are doing to orient our sense organs in the direction of an unexpected stimuli. A) Learning. B) Generalization. C) Stimulus. D) Orienting reflex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Orienting reflex. 15. An animal learns to press a button in order to turn off an aversive noise.This is an example of A) Negative reinforcement. B) Positive reinforcement. C) Learned helplessness. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative reinforcement. 16. Responds in the same way to another similar stimulus A) Stimulus discrimination. B) Extinction. C) Spontaneous recovery. D) Stimulus generalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus generalisation. 17. The daytime temperature is going to reach 38 $^ \circ$c, therefore Mia decided to put on sunscreen to avoid sun burn. This is an example of ..... A) Positive Punishment. B) Negative Punishment. C) Positive Reinforcement. D) Negative Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Reinforcement. 18. Punishers ..... the preceding behavior. Reinforcers ..... the preceding behaviors. A) Display/conceal. B) Activate/pacify. C) Increase/decrease. D) Decrease/increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decrease/increase. 19. Employee is habitually late for work so he loses the privilege to listen to music at work A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 20. Getting a soft drink after putting money into a vending machine A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Positive Punishment. C) Negative Reinforcement. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Reinforcement. 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