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Operant Conditioning Quiz 5 (30 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.)
21. IN OPERANT CONDITIONING, WHAT IS AN EVENT THAT STRENGTHENS THE BEHAVIOR IT FOLLOWS?
22. Receiving praise after a musical performance
23. Learning through the association of a new stimulus and an old response.
24. Mr. Zhang, the class teacher, tried to make the boys stop teasing Dan. Mr. Zhang's first strategy was to take away recess time from any boy he caught teasing Dan. This strategy is best known as
25. WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR OPERANT IN THE PHRASE OPERANT CONDITIONING?
26. Every time your child does a math problem correctly, you give him a piece of candy. Is this positive reinforcement?
27. Teresa had some pizza with friends last night. She tried the pizza with olives even though she never has had them. The next morning she was feeling a little nauseated. She will most likely blame
28. Which type of learning is seen as discouraging bad behaviour instead of encouraging positive behaviour?
29. What was the name of the scientist that was studying about digestion and discovered that he could classically condition dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell?
30. John loves to fish. He puts his line in the water and leaves it there until he feels a tug. On what reinforcement schedule is he rewarded?
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