Unit 4 Learning Mod 27 Vocab Quiz

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In operant conditioning research, a chamber (also known as a Skinner Box) containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer; attached devices record the animal’s rate of bar pressing or key pecking.

• Operant Conditioning

• Law of Effect

• Operant chamber

• Reinforcement

• Shaping

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A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.

• Operant Conditioning

• Law of Effect

• Operant chamber

• Reinforcement

• Shaping

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Thorndike’s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.

• Operant Conditioning

• Law of Effect

• Operant chamber

• Reinforcement

• Shaping

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Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers.  A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.

• Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Shaping

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An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.

• Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Shaping

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In operant conditioning, a stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement (in contrast to related stimuli not associated with reinforcement).

• Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Shaping

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Increases behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli, such as shock.  It is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response

• Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Shaping

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In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.

• Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Shaping

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Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.

• Primary Reinforcer

• Reinforcement Schedule

• Conditioned Reinforcer

• Continuous Reinforcement

• Partial Reinforcement

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A pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced.

• Primary Reinforcer

• Reinforcement Schedule

• Conditioned Reinforcer

• Continuous Reinforcement

• Partial Reinforcement