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Operant Conditioning Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. You have a headache. You take an Advil and the pain goes away.
2. An employee exhibits bad behavior at work and the boss criticizes him
3. Negative reinforcement is
4. James hits his sibling and has to stand in the corner this is an example of
5. The process that _____ the likelihood of a behavior occurring again is most appropriately called _____
6. Giving the students a star next to their names on the chart for working quietly is an example of
7. Behavior:Sally can't give an exampleConsequence:She fails the assignementThe consequence is an example of
8. Which of the following is a primary reinforcer for humans?
9. Small successive step taken in which to get an organism to learn a behavior is called _____
10. Negative reinforcement _____ the rate of a response; punishment _____ the rate of a response.
11. After 6 tardies, you go on the detention list.
12. This occurs when we stop what we are doing to orient our sense organs in the direction of an unexpected stimuli.
13. An animal learns to press a button in order to turn off an aversive noise.This is an example of
14. Responds in the same way to another similar stimulus
15. The daytime temperature is going to reach 38 $^ \circ$c, therefore Mia decided to put on sunscreen to avoid sun burn. This is an example of _____
16. Punishers _____ the preceding behavior. Reinforcers _____ the preceding behaviors.
17. Employee is habitually late for work so he loses the privilege to listen to music at work
18. Getting a soft drink after putting money into a vending machine
19. A type of learning in which responses can be controlled by their consequences, otherwise known as receiving rewards and punishments.
20. 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 _____
21. Taking an aspirin to relieve a headache
22. In classical conditioning, the learned response is _____, while in operant conditioning the learned response is _____
23. Taking an aspirin to get rid of a headache
24. 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.
25. Money is this type of reinforcer
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