BF Skinner Quiz

When was BF Skinner born?

• January 8, 1902

• March 20, 1904

• May 6, 1856

• June 15, 1902

What theory did BF Skinner create?

• Operant conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Avoidance Conditioning

What animals did BF skinner use to test these experiments?

• Dog

• Cat

• Hamster

• Rat

What was BF Skinner known for?

• Developed a unique way of understanding the human psyche and its functioning

• Pioneering work on experimental psychology and advocated behaviorism

• Development of cognition and intelligence in children and cognitive ability

• Developed an experiment testing the concept of the conditioned reflex

What was the Skinner box? 

• A box to analyze how an animal communicates via behavior

• To condition an animal's food proportion sizes and how much it eats

• To record an animal's behavior based on desirable behavior and reward

• To record the process of an animal's ability to deal with trial and error

What is positive reinforcement?

• The act of rewarding a positive behavior in hopes of it happening again

• The act of rewarding a positive behavior in hopes of it not happening again

• The act of encouraging a behavior through unpleasant experiences

• The act of encouraging behavior that causes an unpleasant event to stop

What is negative reinforcement?

• To strengthen a positive outcome by removing negative behavior

• To decrease a behavior by taking away a positive outcome

• To decrease a conditioned response that results in a behavior disappearing

• To strengthen a behavior by removing a negative outcome

What BF Skinner goal for the treatment?

• To predict and control an organism's behavior from its current stimulus situation and its history of reinforcement

• To overcome feelings of inferiority and increase social connectedness with others

• To fully understand what your true problems are and how to resolve them to the greatest extent possible

• To understand the personality through levels of awareness and mental state

When did Skinner first discover his theory?

• 1928

• 1938

• 1956

• 1921

What award did Skinner win?

• Nobel Peace Prize

• The Wolf Prize

• National Medal of Science

• The Grammys