Operant Conditioning/Social Learning Review

What is a reinforcer?

• Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior
• Anything that the subject likes 
• Anything that the subject will work for 
• Anything that follows a behavior an and increases the frequency of a behavior

Who created the Operant Conditioning Chamber?

• Edward Tolman
• John Garcia
• BF Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov

What is punishment?

•  Anything that the subject will work to avoid
  
•  Any unpleasant stimulus
  
•  Anything that the subject dislikes
  
•  Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior
  

For an individual to experience observational learning, he or she must

• Be rewarded immediately after performing an action.
• Imitate the behavior of a model.
• Be rewarded for every third instance of a behavior.
• Have other people observe and imitate one's own behavior.

Which of the following is an example of observational learning?

• A little girl is spanked for Grabbing her sister's hair.
• Students in a classroom have their recess taken away until they can be quiet.
• Young women wear clothes styled like those of a popular actress.
• A piano student becomes proficient at a new piece of music.

Your niece has a temper tantrum in the store when she is shopping. If you buy her a toy you are

• being practical.
• being kind.
• encouraging more tantrums.
• discouraging more destructive behaviors.

Modeling behavior so other can mimic what you are doing is called __.

• Observational Learning
• Operant Conditioning
• Classical Conditioning
• Punishment

Who conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment?

• Pavlov
• Bandura
• Skinner
• Garcia

Nicolas has autism and he was mute. A therapist working with Nicolas initially gave him a piece of chocolate any time he made a sound with his lips. This slowly changed until Nicolas only received a piece of chocolate for saying complete words, and eventually only for saying complete sentences. Nicolas developed speech skills through the use of

• classical conditioning
• modeling
• shaping
• negative reinforcement

A little girl gets spanked by her mom for throwing a temper tantrum in the grocery store.  This is an example of:  

• positive reinforcement
• negative reinforcement
• positive punishment
• negative punishment