Operant Conditioning

How does Programmed Learning work?

• punishment when the student gets answers wrong

• short bits of easy to learn information shared

• designed so students receives positive reinforcement throughout

• lots of repetition so it is easy to get questions right

• a pre test but not a post test

What is positive reinforcement?

• a punishment administered when you do the behavior

• having a punishment taken away if you do something

• rewards for doing a desired behavior

• something that decreases your chance of doing the behavior

What was Sheldon trying to do in the video clip we watched?

• punish Penny and Leonard when they didn't do what he wanted

• communicate with Penny his feelings in an open way

• train Penny to act in a more pleasing way

• train Leonard to do what he wanted him to

The result of reinforcement is to

• cause a behavior to stop

• cause a behavior to diminish.

• cause a behavior to continue.

• cause a behavior to occur for only a limited amount of time.

Which of the following describes negative reinforcement?

• A mother gives her son praise for doing homework

• Sarah studies hard because it earns her "A" grades in English

• Dennis used to walk to school but does not do so anymore because he was attacked by a dog in the neighborhood last month.

• Bob washes the dishes in order to stop his mother's nagging

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
  

What is operant conditioning?

• A type of learning in which we make an association between two events by repeated exposure.

• A type of learning about the relationship between behavior and its consequences This relationship affects our future actions.

What is omission training?

• increases the chance of the behavior happening again

• where behavior results in a reward being taken away

• behavior results in a punishment being removed or avoided

• decreases the chance of the behavior happening again

Which is a (positive) punishment?

• buying a lottery ticket and winning 50 bucks

• being not allowed to participate in senior activities because you got in trouble too many times

• getting a ticket after being caught speeding

• cleaning your room to avoid your mom's nagging

Why do you give positive reinforcement? (your goal in doing this)