This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Conditioning > Operant Conditioning – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Operant Conditioning Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of learning in which responses can be controlled by their consequences, otherwise known as receiving rewards and punishments. A) Classical Conditioning. B) Operant Conditioning. C) Associative Learning. D) Disassociative Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Operant Conditioning. 2. Father of behaviorism; Baby Albert experiment-classically conditioned fear A) B.F. Skinner. B) John Watson. C) Lawrence Kohlberg. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Watson. 3. Behavior:Amy ran awayConsequence:Her parents changed the locks A) + reinforcement. B) Reinforcement. C) + punishment. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) + punishment. 4. The child screamed in the store for a candy bar. Dad gave them the candy bar. The next time they went to the store, the child screamed for candy. The child's behavior ..... A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Reinforcement. 5. Taking an aspirin to relieve a headache A) Positive Punishment. B) Positive Reinforcement. C) Negative Punishment. D) Negative Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Reinforcement. 6. In classical conditioning, the learned response is ....., while in operant conditioning the learned response is ..... A) Voluntary; reflexive. B) Spontaneous; involuntary. C) Reflexive; voluntary. D) Involuntary; reflexive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflexive; voluntary. 7. The addition of something unpleasant A) Postive reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Neutral Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 8. Taking an aspirin to get rid of a headache A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Punishment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Reinforcement. 9. A child has a toy taken away for fighting with his sister. The parents hope this will stop the two from fighting in the future. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 10. Money is this type of reinforcer A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Positive. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary. 11. Behavior:Zane has his phone out in classConsequence:He gets it taken away A) + reinforcement. B) Reinforcement. C) + punishment. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punishment. 12. The primary basis behind operant conditioning is Edward Thorndike's: A) Partial reinforcement. B) Latent learning. C) Law of effect. D) Cognitive map. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of effect. 13. Robert has learnt to ask his mother for extra pocket money only when she is in a good mood. Robert's behaviour is an example of A) Shaping. B) Stimulus generalisation. C) Unconditioned stimulus. D) Stimulus discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaping. 14. Was Skinner's theory successful? A) I don't know. B) No, it wasn't. C) Yes, it was. D) Not really. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes, it was. 15. Operant conditioning looks at ..... behaviors. A) Voluntary. B) Involtunary. C) Innate. D) Naturally occurring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary. 16. In operant conditioning, we learn associations between A) The behavior of others and our desire to imitate it. B) Reinforcements and punishments. C) Unrelated events. D) Our behavior and its consequences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Our behavior and its consequences. 17. Players who intiate helmet to helmet contact are ejected from the game and can't play in the next one. This type of foul has become less common! A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Negative Punishment. D) Positive Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative Punishment. 18. You get paid once every two weeks. A) Fixed Interval. B) Fixed Ratio. C) Variable Interval. D) Variable Ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed Interval. 19. A stimulus that has absolutely no meaning to an individual initially is called a A) Conditioned stimulus. B) Neutral stimulus. C) Unconditioned stimulus. D) No answer is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neutral stimulus. 20. In Pavlov's experiment on salivation in dogs, the neutral stimulus was ..... and the conditioned stimulus was ..... A) The bell; the bell. B) The bell; salivation. C) The meat powder; the bell. D) The meat powder; salivation. 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