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Operant Conditioning Quiz 6 (25 MCQs)

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1. An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov's dogs, the salivation to the food.
2. Your grandpa pinches your ear (hard) until you apologize to your little brother.
3. In _____ the learner is active.
4. 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!
5. Any event of stimulus, that when following a response, increased the probability that the response will occur again.
6. What is a similarity between classical and operant conditioning?
7. Which schedule of reinforcement is being used? Studying for a class that has pop quizzes
8. Imitating others, or copying their behavior, is called:
9. Give food to dog a the the table if he is quiet
10. 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.)
11. IN OPERANT CONDITIONING, WHAT IS AN EVENT THAT STRENGTHENS THE BEHAVIOR IT FOLLOWS?
12. Receiving praise after a musical performance
13. Learning through the association of a new stimulus and an old response.
14. 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
15. WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR OPERANT IN THE PHRASE OPERANT CONDITIONING?
16. Every time your child does a math problem correctly, you give him a piece of candy. Is this positive reinforcement?
17. 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
18. Which type of learning is seen as discouraging bad behaviour instead of encouraging positive behaviour?
19. 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?
20. 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?
21. An student is yelled at by a teacher for being late
22. Receiving a good grade for reading and responding to every two chapters of a novel is an example of a _____ schedule of reinforcement.
23. When John turns on the light to his aquarium the fish swim to the top even before he sprinkles the food. What used to be a neutral stimulus for the fish?
24. Your neighbor is playing their music super loud. You pound on the wall and they turn down their music. You are more likely to do this in the future.
25. Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?
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