QLD Unit 3 Operant Conditioning

Any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior is called:

• punishment
• conditioned stimulus.
• reinforcement
• unconditioned stimulus.

When Fido the dog sits, he gets a treat.

Identify which learning theory was most likely used to establish this behaviour:

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Observational learning

• Social learning theory

Your car has a red, flashing light that blinks annoyingly if you start the car without buckling the seat belt.

You become less likely to start the car without buckling the seat belt.

Identify the theory which best describes how this behaviour was learnt.

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Observational learning

• Social learning theory

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:

• conditioned response
• negative reinforcement
• positive reinforcement
• punishment

In John Watson’s famous study, Little Albert was conditioned to fear rats by associating them with an unpleasant loud noise. If Little Albert had then been repeatedly exposed to the rat, but without the noise, his fear response was have

• become stronger
• been extinguished 
• generalised to all white furry objects
• spontaneously recovered 

Which of the following researchers is NOT generally associated with conditioning?

• Skinner

• Watson

• Pavlov

• Freud

The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was:

• Skinner
• Watson
• Pavlov
• Bandura

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:

• punished

• reinforced

• discriminated

• shaped

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 behaviour through:

• conditioned response

• negative reinforcement

• positive reinforcement

• punishment

As a punishment for getting bad grades, Simone is grounded by her parents.

What else should her parents do to help improve her grades?

• take away TV/Computer privileges

• reinforce good study habits

• make her break up with her boyfriend

• make her clean the garage