Operant Conditioning

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

A father is frustrated because his teenage daughter has started to curse frequently. He has decided to temporarily decrease her allowance each time she curses. He is going to continue doing this until she has stopped cursing. His plan uses

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

What is a reinforcer?

• Anything that decreases the frequency of a behaviour

• Anything that the subject likes 
• Anything that the subject will work for 
• Anything that follows a behaviour and increases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring

What is punishment?

•  Anything that the subject will work to avoid
  
•  Any unpleasant stimulus
  
•  Anything that the subject dislikes
  
•  Anything that decreases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring

Getting a soft drink after putting money into a vending machine is an example of:

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment

My dad puts on his seatbelt to make his car stop beeping; this is an example of:

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• conditioned reinforcement

• unconditioned reinforcement

After Lee refused to clean his room, his mother took away his smart phone. Lee's mum is making use of

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

When is behaviour determined by anticipation of what follows it?

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

When is behaviour determined by what comes before it?

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

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 behaviour and its consequences This relationship affects our future actions.