This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Conditioning > Operant Conditioning – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Operant Conditioning Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The type of learning where an animal or person tries to take steps they have learned will keep an unpleasant situation from happening in the future. A) Escape Learning. B) Classical Learning. C) Avoidance Learning. D) Association Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Avoidance Learning. 2. If I pay you $ 100 for every 10 computers you fix, this would be an example of a(n) A) Unconditioned response. B) Neutral stimulus. C) Fixed ratio schedule. D) Variable interval schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed ratio schedule. 3. This requires a SET amount of time to elapse before giving the reinforcement A) Variable interval. B) Fixed ratio. C) Variable ratio. D) Fixed interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fixed interval. 4. Operant Conditioning was first investigated by ..... A) B. K. Skinner. B) Ivan P. Pavlov. C) Atkinson & Shiffrin. D) B. F. Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B. F. Skinner. 5. The removal of something unpleasant (like an electric shock) when the desired behavior is completed. A) PR. B) NR. C) PP. D) NP. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NR. 6. Wakefield High School offers Pride Time as a way for students to make up assignments. A student who is failing the class must go to Pride Time to make up their work. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 7. Define conditioned response A) A response that does not have to be learned. B) A response that has been learned. C) A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex. D) A form of learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A response that has been learned. 8. After extinction, a learned response may suddenly return without any reinforcement. It is likely to be weaker than the original response and not last very long A) Stimulus discrimination. B) Extinction. C) Spontaneous recovery. D) Stimulus generalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spontaneous recovery. 9. What is the purpose of a reinforcement? A) To strengthen a behavior. B) To decrease a behavior. C) To keep an equal amount of strengthening and decreasing. D) To stop a behavior entirely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To strengthen a behavior. 10. Learning is defined as A) Any behavior emitted by an organism without being prompted. B) A changed in the behavior of the organism. C) A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience. D) Behavior based on actions rather than reactions due to conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience. 11. In a famous psychological study, children that watched adults behave aggressively were more likely to behave aggressively themselves. What type of learning did this study illustrate? A) Classical conditioning. B) Operant conditioning. C) Insight learning. D) Observational learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observational learning. 12. Buying lottery ticket is reinforced on a ..... schedule. A) Fixed ratio. B) Fixed interval. C) Variable ratio. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable ratio. 13. Receiving half credit for turning in a paper late. A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative punishment. 14. Like classical conditioning, operant conditioning is a form of associative learning except that there is: A) An association between events. B) An association with discrimination. C) Reinforcement or punishment. D) An association without consequences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reinforcement or punishment. 15. After Tim refused to clean his room, his mother took away his PS4 gaming system, Tim's mom is making use of A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative punishment. 16. Punishment is meant to A) Avoid pain. B) Increase pleasure. C) Decrease the occurrence of undesirable behaviors. D) Create a sense of wellness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decrease the occurrence of undesirable behaviors. 17. A teenager is grounded for misbehavior. (Remove free time.) The parents want to ensure the teenager does not do what they did moving forward. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 18. After conditioning has taken place, repeatedly presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus will make the the conditioned response become weaker and then disappear is known as: A) Extinction. B) Preexisting. C) Nonexistence. D) Precursor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinction. 19. Define Unconditioned reflex A) A form of learning. B) A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex. C) A reflex that occurs naturally without any prior learning. D) A response that has been learned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reflex that occurs naturally without any prior learning. 20. B.F. Skinner studied operant conditioning through the use of an operant conditioning box, which is also known as what? A) Conditioning cage. B) Skinner house. C) Skinner box. D) Pavlov's box. 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