Operant Conditioning Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do we call the type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer?
2. Fixed Interval schedules are based on:
3. Any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior is called:
4. WHAT IS AN OPERANT CONDITIONING PROCEDURE IN WHICH REINFORCERS GUIDE BEHAVIOR TOWARD CLOSER AND CLOSER APPROXIMATIONS?
5. Blake is a carpet installer who wants to be paid for each square foot of carpet he lays rather than with an hourly wage. Blake prefers working on a ..... schedule of reinforcement.
6. As a punishment for getting bad grades, Simone is grounded by her parents. What else should her parents do to help improve her grades?
7. Gambling devices are an example of the schedule that is most resistant to extinction (longest-lasting). These are an example of .....
8. This takes away a desirable stimulus
9. A ..... is a stimulus or event that increases the odds of repeating a behavior.
10. Hit dog on the nose for barking at the table
11. An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov's dogs, the salivation to the food.
12. Your grandpa pinches your ear (hard) until you apologize to your little brother.
13. In ..... the learner is active.
14. Lisa is a rude and unruly student, who wagged the assembly in the MGH by hiding out in the breezeway loos. She got caught and was given a detention!
15. Any event of stimulus, that when following a response, increased the probability that the response will occur again.
16. What is a similarity between classical and operant conditioning?
17. Which schedule of reinforcement is being used? Studying for a class that has pop quizzes
18. Imitating others, or copying their behavior, is called:
19. Give food to dog a the the table if he is quiet
20. A person stops teasing his girlfriend about a certain issue after she gives him a silent treatment. (She does this so he does not tease her any further.)