AP Psych Exam - Operant Learning

Coined the term operant conditioning, best known behaviorist psychologist

• BF Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• James Watson

• Gordon Allport

Reinforcing the steps used to reach the desired behavior

• Chaining

• Shaping

• Learning

• Remembering

A kind of learning based on the association of consequences with one's behavior

• Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Modeling

• Remembering

Occurs when an organism responds in similar ways in order to elicit a reinforcer

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Generalization

• Shaping

• Chaining

Occurs when a response begins again after extinction

• Chaining

• Generalization

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Shaping

When an organism stops a response because the reinforcer ceases

• Omission Training

• Extinction

• Shaping

• Learning

Affects behavior by using unpleasant consequences

• Negative Punishment (Omission Training)

• Positive Punishment

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

Element of operant conditioning, affects behavior by adding unpleasant consequences

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Shaping

Refers to the removal of something unpleasant

• Shaping

• Positive Punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive reinforcement

Varies the amount of time required to elapse before a response will result in reinforcement

• Fixed Interval Schedule

• Variable Interval Schedule

• Variable Ratio Schedule

• Fixed Ratio Schedule