Operant Conditioning 9.2

To increase the likelihood of a student studying math every night, the math teacher gives pop quizzes.

Which schedule of reinforcement?

• variable interval

• fixed interval

Which Behaviourist coined the termed Operant Conditioning

• B.F.Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

Cleaning up your room to stop your fathers nagging is

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

A dog is ignored for jumping up at a person

• Negative Punishment

• Positive Punishment

What best describes operant conditioning below

• Anything that naturally and automatically triggers a response

• Process of learning through reinforcement and punishment.

• Is an automatic reflex that occurs in response to an unconditioned stimulus.

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

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

When you give your dog a treat after he uses the bathroom outside. This is an example of:

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

Seals in an aquarium will repeat behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This example best illustrates:

• discrimination

• observational learning

• positive reinforcement

Students in Ms. Dean's fourth-grade class receive a star on a chart for every book they read. Which schedule of reinforcement does this represent?

• fixed ratio

• fixed interval

Sammy the baseball player loved to hit home runs. Every time he was at bat he would attempt to hit the ball out of the park. Sometimes he was successful, but not always. This best illustrates which schedule of reinforcement?

• variable ratio

• fixed ratio

• fixed interval