This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Conditioning > Operant Conditioning – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Operant Conditioning Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Requires a random amount of time to elapse before giving the reinforcement A) Variable ratio. B) Variable interval. C) Fixed ratio. D) Fixed interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable interval. 2. Taking away your car for coming home after curfew A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Punishment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punishment. 3. When a rewarding stimulus is subtracted from the environment to decrease a behavior this is called: A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 4. Operant conditioning theory explains/predicts ..... A) How people or animals learn to "do" some things and not others. B) How people or animals learn feel certain emotions by associating them with external events. C) How people learn by watching others. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How people or animals learn to "do" some things and not others. 5. A reinforcing feeling is a(n) A) Intrinsic reward. B) Punishment. C) Secondary reinforcer. D) Extrinsic reward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrinsic reward. 6. When a child hears a loud noise, he cries. The family's dog often barks loudly. Each time the child sees the dog, he cries. What is the conditioned response? A) The dog. B) The loud noise. C) The crying. D) The Barking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The crying. 7. Sam has his toys taken away because he pulled his dogs tail this would be an example of A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Positive Punishment. C) Negative Reinforcement. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 8. Sudden quizzes reinforce reading and studying on a ..... schedule. A) Fixed ratio. B) Variable ratio. C) Fixed interval. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable interval. 9. Dog looks for food and finds none in the outhouse A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 10. A teacher providing positive feedback to a student who then continues to work hard is an example of A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive reinforcement. 11. After you buy 4 meals at a restaurant you get the 5th one free. A) Fixed ratio. B) Variable ratio. C) Fixed interval. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed ratio. 12. When Jason completes his homework without his teacher's nagging, his Saturday detention is removed.This is an example of A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Punishment. D) Response cost reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative reinforcement. 13. Amazon packages arriving at your house after you order them is an example of: A) Fixed-Interval Schedule. B) Fixed-Ratio Schedule. C) Variable-Interval Schedule. D) Variable-Ratio Schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable-Interval Schedule. 14. Turning up the volume on the the TV to cover up the noise outside A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Reinforcement. 15. The discriminative stimulus is also referred to as the A) Behavioural outcome. B) Reinforcer or punisher. C) Antecedent condition. D) Reward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antecedent condition. 16. Your romantic partner always uses the same shampoo. Soon, the smell of that shampoo makes you feel happy. In this situation, what is the unconditioned response? A) Romantic partner. B) Smell of shampoo. C) Feeling happy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feeling happy. 17. Yelling "No!" at a dog jumping up on a person A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 18. Classically conditioned Baby Albert to fear white rats. A) B.F. Skinner. B) John Watson. C) Lawrence Kohlberg. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Watson. 19. Behavior:Jack mows the lawnConsequence:He receives an allowanceThis consequence is an example of A) + reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) + punishment. D) Response cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) + reinforcement. 20. What is a stimulus? A) A response to an action. B) A colloquial phrase. C) Something that causes a response. D) Something the government uses to help the economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something that causes a response. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesOperant Conditioning Quiz 1Operant Conditioning Quiz 2Operant Conditioning Quiz 3Operant Conditioning Quiz 4Operant Conditioning Quiz 5Operant Conditioning Quiz 6Operant Conditioning Quiz 7Operant Conditioning Quiz 8Operant Conditioning Quiz 9Operant Conditioning Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books