Reinforcement

Receiving a paycheck every other Friday fits what shedule of reinforcement?

• fixed interval

• variable interval

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

A surfer waitiing for the perfect wave to come in fits what schedule of reinforcement?

• fixed ratio

• variable ratio

• fixed interval

• variable interval

For every ten words spelled correctly, a child gets a star by their name on a bulletin board.

• FI

• FR

• VI

• VR

A rat is rewarded for the first correct response after every 30 seconds

• FI

• FR

• VI

• VR

In order to get more audience participation, a radio show offers a prize to the first person to call the show at the beginning of every hour. The show is using which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

• variable ratio

• fixed ratio

• variable interval

• fixed interval

Students in Professor Ohno’s class were given a weekly quiz. The students' grades on the first quiz were low, so Professor Ohno began praising the performance of those students who answered the quiz questions correctly. As a result of this procedure, the students' quiz performance improved on the rest of the quizzes

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

I always clean the house to get rid of a mess

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment

A toddler is given a cookie after saying “please”. Now he says please all the time.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment

Watching your favorite TV show after doing all of your homework.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment

Getting a candy bar after putting money into a vending machine

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment