Chpater 5-learning

Question 1

What is the law of effect?

Answer 1

Law stating that if an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated and if followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not Robb’s repeated

Question 2

What’s the differences between reinforcement and punishment

Answer 2

Reinforcement is any event or stimulus that, when following a response, increases the probability that the response will occur again

Question 3

What are all the reinforcement?

Answer 3

• primary reinforcers
• secondary reinforces
• positive reinforcement
• negative reinforcement

Question 4

What are all the punishment

Answer 4

Punishment by application

Punishment by removal

Question 5

Who were the 2 people who focused on observable,measurable behavior?

Answer 5

• Thornlike

* Skinner

Question 6

Fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement

Answer 6

• schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement is always the same

Question 7

Variable ratio schedule of reinforcement

Answer 7

Schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement is different or each trail or event

Question 8

What is biofeedback

Answer 8

*using feedback about biological conditions to bring involuntary responses, such as blood pressure and relaxation, under voluntary control

Question 9

Neurofeedback

Answer 9

Form of biofeedback using brain-scanning devices to provide feedback about brain actibity in a effort to modify behavior

Question 10

What’s the difference between learned helplessness and observational learning

Answer 10

• learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation beacuse off a history of repeated failures in the past
• learning new behavior by watching a model perform that behavior