This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Conditioning > Operant Conditioning – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Operant Conditioning Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Consequences that strengthen responses due to escape from or avoidance of unpleasant stimuli are ..... reinforcers. A) Negative. B) Positive. C) Primary. D) Secondary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative. 2. Using an umbrella when it's raining would be an example of A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Reinforcement. 3. Having your cell phone taken away because you have not done your chores is A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Aversive control. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aversive control. 4. Behavior:Tyler cries when doing homework Consequence:His parents don't make him do it A) + reinforcement. B) Reinforcement. C) + punishment. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reinforcement. 5. You are teaching your dog to sit. As soon as the dog sits, you give them a treat. The dog sits quicker on command in the future. A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Reinforcement. 6. TO PSYCHOLOGISTS, LEARNING IS? A) A long term change in behavior that is based on experience. B) A constant set of individuals situated in a controlled environment. C) The typical desks, students, lecture, text books scenario. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A long term change in behavior that is based on experience. 7. Stimulus or event that increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated. A) Avoidance conditioning. B) Escape conditioning. C) Aversive control. D) Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reinforcement. 8. Skinner demonstrated that organisms tend to repeat responses that are followed by favourable consequences.Skinner termed these favourable consequences A) Unconditioned stimuli. B) Rewards. C) Reinforcements. D) Learning sets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reinforcements. 9. The man who studied man's best friend ..... A) SIgmund Feud. B) B. F. Skinner. C) John B. Watson. D) Ivan Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ivan Pavlov. 10. Many of Skinner's original experiments used A) An operant conditioning chamber. B) A Pavlovian conditioning laboratory. C) Children. D) Cats in puzzle boxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An operant conditioning chamber. 11. Many employers will randomly drug test their workers. The workers never know when it will occur so they refrain from taking drugs. A) Fixed ratio. B) Variable ratio. C) Fixed interval. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable interval. 12. In operant conditioning, the procedure for eliminating a response by ceasing reinforcement is called A) Stimulus discrimination. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Extinction. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinction. 13. Telemarketers or selling Girl Scout cookies door-to-door is an example of a(n) A) Unconditioned stimulus. B) Variable ratio schedule. C) Fixed interval schedule. D) Conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable ratio schedule. 14. When you put a child in time out until they decrease their aggressive behavior. What is this an example of? A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 15. In Pavlov's classical conditioning study, the neutral stimulus that was presented to the dog was ..... A) The food. B) An electric shock. C) A bell sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bell sound. 16. Excusing you from a homework assignment for having perfect attendance A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Punishment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Reinforcement. 17. Behavior:John spits on the floorConsequence:His mother makes him clean it up A) Positive reinforcement. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive punishment. 18. Assigning a student a detention for texting A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Punishment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punishment. 19. WHAT IS A BENEFICIAL HABIT? A) A HABIT THAT DECREASE OUR SELF CONTROL AND DISCONNECTS OUR RESOLUTIONS WITH POSITIVE OUTCOMES. B) A HABIT THAT INCREASES OUR SELF CONTROL AND CONNECT OUR RESOLUTIONS WITH POSITIVE OUTCOMES. C) NONE OF THE ABOVE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A HABIT THAT INCREASES OUR SELF CONTROL AND CONNECT OUR RESOLUTIONS WITH POSITIVE OUTCOMES. 20. Behavior:Marcy posts drunken picsConsequence:She loses her job A) + reinforcement. B) Reinforcement. C) + punishment. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punishment. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesOperant Conditioning Quiz 1Operant Conditioning Quiz 2Operant Conditioning Quiz 3Operant Conditioning Quiz 5Operant Conditioning Quiz 6Operant Conditioning Quiz 7Operant Conditioning Quiz 8Operant Conditioning Quiz 9Operant Conditioning Quiz 10Operant Conditioning Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books