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Operant Conditioning Quiz 8 (30 MCQs)

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1. Pop quizzes reinforce reading and studying on a ..... schedule.
2. Finn receives a spanking from his mum after he refuses to eat his vegetables during dinner.
3. How have you been CLASSICALY conditioned in school?
4. The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was:
5. James ignored his barking dog until she eventually stopped. When she was quiet, she got a treat.
6. Joe was hit with a baseball last week during practice and now refuses to play with that team of kids.
7. A reward that comes from others is called a(n)
8. Skinner found which schedule of reinforcement to create the strongest habits (most resistant to extinction)
9. Which animal was put into the Skinner box?
10. Elise's car has an annoying buzzer that sounds until the seat belt is snapped into place. Elise always puts on her seatbelt as soon as she gets in the car. She has learned this behavior through:
11. Behaviour's learned through operant conditioning, when compared with behaviour's learned through classicalconditioning, are more likely to be
12. The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response in the presences of a conditioned stimulus is
13. Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.
14. Which of the following terms, coined by Albert Bandura, refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others?
15. Ivan Pavlov is famous for his contributions to psychology, he was actually a
16. In Pavlov's studies with dogs, what did the sound of the bell serve as?
17. The best example of secondary reinforcement is:
18. Using an umbrella when it's raining
19. Fido the dog normally comes running when the electric can-opener is used however today he came running at the sound of the blender. This is known as
20. Who proposed the theory of Operant Conditioning?
21. Which of the following would be a secondary reinforcer for a rat?
22. The dog gets a treat for playing dead.
23. What were the three types of responses?
24. Behavior:Zane has his phone out in classConsequence:He gets it taken away.The consequence is an example of
25. Psychologists call behavior that receives feedback in the form of a reinforcing or punishing consequence ..... behavior.
26. Maggie cries and throws a temper tantrum at the store and her mother buys her a candy bar. Maggie is more likely to have a tantrum the next time she is at the store because that behaviour was:
27. Selling Girl Scout cookies door-to-door is reinforced on a ..... schedule.
28. Response cost is also known as
29. Learning a complicated sequence of behaviors in steps.
30. A dog receives a treat after obeying a command.
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