Mod 27

Question 1

What Is Operant conditioning?

Answer 1

A type of learning by associating actions with consequences.

Question 2

Who created law of effect and what is it?

Answer 2

Edward Thorndike started it and it states that rewarded behavior tends to recur and punished behavior is less likely to recur.

Question 3

What is an operant chamber?

Answer 3

Its a bar/key an animal can manipulate to get food/water reinforcer

Question 4

What is reinforcement?

Answer 4

Increases behavior by the addition or removal of something.

Question 5

What is shaping?

Answer 5

reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of desired behavior

Question 6

What is positive reinforcement?

Answer 6

Encourages behavior with rewards

Question 7

What is discriminative stimulus?

Answer 7

Tells a person or animal when a certain response will lead to a reward

Question 8

What is negative reinforcement?

Answer 8

A stimulus that provides relief/removing something negative. (Tylenol removes headaches)

Question 9

What is a primary reinforcer?

Answer 9

A stimulus that satisfies biological needs

Question 10

What is a conditioned reinforcer?

Answer 10

Something that initial has no value but gains it through a primary reinforcer(money)

Question 11

What is continuous reinforcement?

Answer 11

reinforcing desired response consistently.

Question 12

What are partial reinforcement schedules?

Answer 12

reinforcing a response inconsistently

Question 13

What are fixed ratio schedules?

Answer 13

Reinforcement after a set number of responses

Question 14

What are variable ratio schedules?

Answer 14

reinforces after a varying number of responses

Question 15

What are fixed interval schedules?

Answer 15

reinforces after a fixed time period (paycheck)

Question 16

What are variable interval schedules?

Answer 16

reinforces 1st response after varying time

Question 17

What is punishment?

Answer 17

Decreases behavior by addition of something bad or a removal of something good