Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism Quiz

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

• negative punishment
• Operant Conditioning
• Classical Conditioning
• positive reinforcement

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

• positive reinforcement
• Edward L. Thorndike
• positive punishment
• negative reinforcement

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

• Edward L. Thorndike
• Skinner box
• punishment
• negative reinforcement

the administration of a stimulus to decrease the probability of a behavior's recurring (addition of something unpleasant)

• positive punishment
• reinforcement
• Skinner box
• negative punishment

the removal of a stimulus to decrease the probability of a behavior's recurring

• B.F. Skinner
• positive punishment
• negative punishment
• Operant Conditioning

in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows (increases behavior)

• Extinction (operant conditioning)
• Operant Conditioning
• positive reinforcement
• reinforcement

in operant conditioning an event that decreases the behavior that it follows (decreases behavior)

• punishment
• Operant Conditioning
• Extinction (operant conditioning)
• negative punishment

Theis psychologist was widely known for the law of effect- the principle that rewarded behavior is likely to recur and punished behavior is unlikely to recur. This principle was the basis for another famous behaviorist's behavioral technology.

• BF Skinner
• Edward L. Thorndike
• Wilhelm Wundt
• Extinction (operant conditioning)

Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Thorndike
• B.F. Skinner
• William James

Named for its developer a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response

• Operant Conditioning
• reinforcement
• positive reinforcement
• Skinner box