Operant Conditioning pt 1

A behavior that is only acceptable in a specific context that it's associated with

• Discriminative Stimuli
• Extinction
• Shaping

A dog is trained so that every time its owner rings a bell it sits. The owner teaches the dog to sit only when the dog hears the bell sound come from a small bell its owner is holding in their hand. What is this?

• Stimulus Discrimination
• Negative Punishment
• Extinction
• Negative Reinforcement

A rat runs through a simple maze and gets rewarded with food every time, but then the reward is no longer there and after a while of running through the maze over and over, the rat no longer attempts to go through the maze. What is this?

• Extinction
• Primary Reinforcer
• Negative Punishment
• Stimulus Discrimination

A stimulus that is naturally valuable by itself

• Primary Reinforcer
• Secondary reinforcer

All the students in a class get a 100 on their test so the teacher does not give them homework that night. What is this?

• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment
• Positive Reinforcement

an addition of more chores for failing a test

• Positive Punishment
• postive Reinforcement
• negative punishment
• stimuli

Determines wether or not an action should be rewarded or punished.

• Discriminative Stimuli
• shaping
• stimulus discrimination
• Positive Punishment

dog sits and gets rewarded, so he thinks if he lays down he will also be rewarded

• Stimulus Generalization
• stimulus discrimination
• positive reinforcement
• punishment

don't have to do chores after getting a hundred on a test

• Negative Reinforcement
• postive punishment
• postive reforcment
• negative punishment

Every time a dog uses its paw to press a button, it gets treats. What does this represent?

• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Punishment
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment