Chapter 6 Operant Conditioning HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Question 1

Operant behaviours are influenced by their ________

Answer 1

Consequences

Question 2

Elicited behaviour is a function of what _______ it operant behaviour is a function of what ________ it

Answer 2

Precedes

Follows

Question 3

Another name for operant conditioning is ______

Answer 3

Instrumental conditioning

Because response is instrumental in producing the consequence

Question 4

Thorndikes cats learned to solve the puzzle box problem _______

Answer 4

Gradually

Question 5

Based on his research with cats Thorndike formulated his famous _________ which states that behaviours that lead to an _______ state of affairs are strengthens while behaviours that lead to a _______ state of affairs are weakened

Answer 5

Law of effect
Satisfying
Annoying

Question 6

According to Thorndike behaviours that worked were _____— while behaviour that didn’t were ________

Answer 6

Stamped in

Stamped out

Question 7

The Skinner box evolved out of Skinners quest for a procedure that would amours other things yield ________ patterns of behaviour

Answer 7

Regular

Question 8

In the original version of the Skinner box rats even food by ______ a _____ in the later version perverse earn a few seconds of access to food by _____ at an illuminated plastic disc known as a ______ ________

Answer 8

Pressing
Lever
Pecking
Response key

Question 9

Skinners procedures are also known as ______ ______ procedures in that the animal control the rate at which it earns food

Answer 9

Free operant

Question 10

Skinner originally though all behaviour could be explained in terms of ______ but he eventually decided that this type of behaviour could’ve distinguished from another seemingly more voluntary type of behaviour known as ______ behaviour

Answer 10

Reflexes (respondent behaviour)

Operant