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WorksheetsClassical and Operant Conditioning Ch. 9
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 28mins
Cleaning up your room to stop your fathers nagging is
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
What was the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) in Pavlov dog experiment?
Food
Bell
Salivation
A dog is put in his cage after jumping up on Aunt Lois at the family holiday gathering.
Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment
What best describes operant conditioning below
Anything that naturally and automatically triggers a response
Process of learning through reinforcement and punishment.
Is an automatic reflex that occurs in response to an unconditioned stimulus.
IN CLASSICAL CONDITIONING, A STIMULUS THAT ELICITS NO RESPONSE BEFORE CONDITIONING
UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS
NEUTRAL STIMULS
A response that does not have to be learned
A response that has been learned
the food
the water
the light
Little Albert began to associate any small, fury object with the loud sound. What is this describing?
discrimination
extinction
generalization
After Lee refused to clean his room, his mother took away his smart phone. Lee's mum is making use of
positive punishment
negative punishment
When you give your dog a treat after he uses the bathroom outside. This is an example of:
Positive Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Anything in the environment that one can respond to is a:
Response
Stimulus
Which of the following is an unconditioned response (UCR)?
clapping after a thrilling concert performance
tearing up while cutting an onion
The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was:
Pavlov
Skinner
Watson
In Ivan Pavlov's demonstration of classical conditioning, what was the UCR?
Food
Bell
Salivation to the food
Salivation to the sound of the bell
Seals in an aquarium will repeat behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This example best illustrates:
discrimination
observational learning
positive reinforcement
Students in Ms. Dean's fourth-grade class receive a star on a chart for every book they read. Which schedule of reinforcement does this represent?
fixed ratio
fixed interval
Sammy the baseball player loved to hit home runs. Every time he was at bat he would attempt to hit the ball out of the park. Sometimes he was successful, but not always. This best illustrates which schedule of reinforcement?
variable ratio
fixed ratio
fixed interval
Sandra and Neil are new parents. When they put the baby to bed each night the baby cries and cries. Finally the parents can't stand it any more so they pick her up and walk her. The baby is quiet while being held.
Why are the parents likely to continue to pick up the baby when she cries?
They have been negatively reinforced for that behavior.
They have been positively reinforced for that behavior.
Maggie cries and throws a temper tantrum at the store and her mother ignores her and does not give her any attention. Maggie is less likely to have a tantrum the next time she is at the store because that behavior was:
punished
reinforced
Which of the following describes negative reinforcement?
Dennis stays off his phone in class bc Mrs. Scherry takes student phones that are out.
Bob washes the dishes in order to stop his mother's nagging
A father is frustrated because his teenage daughter has started to curse frequently. He has decided to temporarily decrease her allowance each time she curses. He is going to continue doing this until she has stopped cursing. His plan uses
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
positive punishment
negative punishment
Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior
Anything that follows a behavior and increases the likelihood of a behavior occurring
Any unpleasant stimulus
Anything that the subject dislikes
Anything that decreases the likelihood of a behavior occurring
Getting a soft drink after putting money into a vending machine is an example of:
Positive Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Punishment
My dad puts on his seatbelt to make his car stop beeping; this is an example of:
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
conditioned reinforcement
unconditioned reinforcement
After Lee refused to clean his room, his mother grounds him for the weekend.
Lee's mum is making use of ...
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
positive punishment
negative punishment
Peter is the best reader in class with most stars. He was given them whenever completing homework correctly. How is Peter being conditioned?
Positive punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative punishment
Negative reinforcement
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
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
SKINNER'S PIGEON OR RAT BOX EXPERIMENTS ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF CONDITIONING?
CLASSICAL
OPERANT
Earning an allowance for doing your chores at home is an example of
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
When you put a child in time out until they decrease their aggressive behavior. What is this an example of ?
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Negative Punishment
In John Watson's "Little Albert" experiment, what was the UCS ?
The White Rat
Anything White and Furry
The Loud Noise
naturally triggers a response.
is a naturally occurring response.
is initially irrelevant, and then comes to trigger a response.
The concept of "conditioning" is best described as the process of
learning associations.
discrimination.
generalization.
voluntary behavior.
A 2nd grade teacher implements a rule for some troublemakers in the class: students will lose 1 minute of recess every time he or she breaks a classroom rule. Eventually, the students stop breaking the classroom rules. This is an example of
negative punishment.
positive punishment.
positive reinforcement.
negative reinforcement.
What is the bell considered once learning has taken place?
conditioned stimulus
conditioned response
responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli such as a bell and a tuning fork
generalization
discrimination
extinction
spontaneous recovery
Two-year old Tommy runs into the street and his mother gives him an open-hand swat on his bottom.
Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment
