Learning quiz

Throwing the ball in hopes of getting a strike in bowling is reinforced on a _____ schedule.

• fixed ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• variable ratio

Nam forgot to do laundry, so he had to wear dirty clothes to class. After being isolated by the classmates, he has been doing his laundry more often. How is Nam being conditioned?

• Positive punishment

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative punishment

• Negative reinforcement

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

• Law of effect

• primary reinforcer

• secondary reinforcer

• Operant conditioning

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• clapping after a great concert performance

• getting money as payment

• running through a maze to get a reward

• sweating in hot weather

A consequence that increases the likelihood that the behavior happens again (strengthens)

• Reinforcement

• Punishment

• Latent

• Insight

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

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

When you put on your seat belt to make the annoying sound go away. What is this an example of ?

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

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.

Schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement is always the same.

• Fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement

• shaping

• punishment by removal

• Variable interval schedule of reinforcement

When the police give you a ticket for driving over the speed limit.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment