learning pt 3

Question 1

negative punishment

Answer 1

taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behavior

Question 2

shaping

Answer 2

rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior

Question 3

primary reinforcer

Answer 3

has innate reinforcing qualities (e.g., food, water, shelter, sex)

Question 4

secondary reinforcer

Answer 4

has no inherent value unto itself and only has reinforcing qualities when linked with something else (e.g., money, gold stars, poker chips)

Question 5

continuous reinforcement

Answer 5

rewarding a behavior every time it occurs

Question 6

partial reinforcement

Answer 6

rewarding behavior only some of the time

Question 7

fixed interval reinforcement schedule

Answer 7

behavior is rewarded after a set amount of time

Question 8

variable interval reinforcement schedule

Answer 8

behavior is rewarded after unpredictable amounts of time have passed

Question 9

fixed ratio reinforcement schedule

Answer 9

set number of responses must occur before a behavior is rewarded

Question 10

variable ratio reinforcement schedule

Answer 10

number of responses differ before a behavior is rewarded