WorksheetsCarson Moore Chapter 6
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is positive reinforcement?
Addition of a positive stimulus after a given behavior
Removal of a negative from life
Addition of a negative to deter a behavior
Addition of a neutral stimulus to enforce a behavior
In Pavlov's experiment, what was the natural stimulus?
Salivate to bell
Salivate to food
Dog food
Bell
What is it called when a conditioned stimulus becomes neutral?
Spontaneous recovery
Extinction
Acquisition
Discrimination
What was Watson's Little Albert experiment?
Watson conditioned Little Albert to become scared of a small plastic duck
Watson observed Little Albert's reaction around complete strangers as opposed to his mother
Watson put a rat named Little Albert through a maze to see how fast it could complete it
Watson conditioned Little Albert to become scared of a white rat
Natural stimulus is to natural response as...
Conditioned response is to neutral stimulus
Neutral stimulus is to spontaneous recovery
Conditioned stimulus is to conditioned response
Generalization is to acquisition
What is NOT an example of negative reinforcement?
A child gets candy after they clean up their toys
Jerry does the dishes in order to avoid nagging from his mother
Sally pushes a button to stop a loud alarm
Jimmy is allowed to leave the dinner table once he eats his carrots
Jackie receives her paycheck every other Friday. This is an example of...
Variable ratio schedule
Fixed ratio schedule
Variable interval schedule
Fixed interval schedule
What is Albert Bandura most known for?
Rats in a maze
Taste aversion
Bobo doll experiment
Study of dog's salivation
Mary owns a glass blowing studio where she makes custom pieces for companies to sell. She is paid for every set that she makes. This is an example of...
Fixed ratio schedule
Fixed interval schedule
Variable interval schedule
Variable ratio schedule
What is conditioned reinforcement?
An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need
A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary enforcer
A pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced
Any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response
What is the law of effect?
Neutral stimulus goes back to conditioned, usually quicker than the 1st time
A subject gets confused as to what the stimulus is
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for privileges or treats
Behaviors immediately followed by favorable consequences are more likely to occur again
When might latent learning take place?
Getting a speeding ticket for driving too fast
Tying your shoes without needing to look
Having your phone taken away when you fail a test
Avoiding a certain restaurant after getting sick from the food
What does a punishment do?
Enforce the behavior that it follows
Helps in generalizing stimuli
Weaken the behavior that it follows
Teach someone to do something by slowly building up to the response
If Terrence's dog comes to him when he says "dumb" instead of "come," what has happened?
Stimulus generalization
Insight learning
Fixed ratio schedule
Stimulus extinction
If a zookeeper rewards a bear for walking near a stump, then standing on the stump, and then only for standing on one leg on the stump, what technique is being used for training the bear to stand on one leg?
Framing
Shaping
Instrumental learning
Modeling
What is Premack's principle?
Linking things you already know how to do together
When a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus
Learning by figuring out how to get out of undesirable situations
A more preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less preferred one
A punishment ___ the probability of a response, while a negative reinforcement ___ the probability of a response.
decreases; increases
decreases; decreases
increases; decreases
increases; increases
If you taught your cat to high-five for a piece of salami, and one day ran out of salami, what schedule of reinforcement would keep your cat responding longer without a piece of salami?
Fixed ration schedule of reinforcement
Concurrent schedules of reinforcement
Variable interval schedule of reinforcement
Intermittent schedule of reinforcement
What is the disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus?
Operant conditioning
Extinction
Reinforcement
Spontaneous recovery
The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses is...
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Spontaneous recovery
Latent learning
