PSYCH Operant & Observational Learning Review

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?

•  Taking away dessert if a child doesn't finish his dinner
•  Giving a child money for doing his chores
•  Spanking a child for walking into the street
•  Taking away privileges if a child doesn't finish his homework
  

Who developed the "law of effect?"

• Edward Thorndike
• Ivan Pavlov
• B. F. Skinner
• John B. Watson

In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses:

• Fixed-ratio
• Variable-ratio
• Fixed-interval
• Variable-interval

A___________is anything that increases behavior

• Punishment
• Response 
• Reinforcer
• Negative punishment 

Variable ratio provides

• reinforcement after a set number of trial 
• reinforcement after a random number of responses
• reinforcement after a random amount of trials
• reinforcement after acquisition 

this psychologist ran a study with children and modeled behavior using a bobo-doll.

• Albert Schlansky
• John Watson
• Edward Toleman 
• Albert Bandura

Shaping is

• a pattern of responses that must be made before classical conditioning is completed
• rewarding behaviors that get closer and closer to the desired goal behavior
• completing a set of behaviors in succession before a reward is given
• inhibition of new learning by previous learning

Who developed the "law of effect?"

• Edward Thorndike
• Ivan Pavlov
• B. F. Skinner
• John B. Watson

In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses:

• Fixed-ratio
• Variable-ratio
• Fixed-interval
• Variable-interval

This type of punishment takes away a desirable stimulus

• positive punishment
• negative punishment
• primary punishment
• secondary punishment