Chapter 6 Operant Conditioning OPERANT CONDITIONING Flashcards
Skinners definition of operant come rioting differs from thorndikes law of effect in that it views consequences in terms of their effect on the strength of the behaviour not on whether they are _________ or ________
Satisfying
Dissatisfying
OP is similar to the principle of natural selection in that
An individual’s adaptive behaviour tend to increase in frequency whereas nonadaptive will decrease in frequency
The process of operant conditioning I does the following three components
- A _______ that procduces a certain _______
- A _______ that served to either increase or decrease the likelihood of the ______ that preceded it and
- A _______ stimulus that preceded the ______ and signal that a certain _____– is now available
Response Consequence Consequence Response Discriminative Response Consequence
CC behaviours are said to be _______ by the stimulus which operant behaviour are said to be ______ by the organism
Elicited
Emitted
Operant responses are also simply called ________
Operant S
Operant behaviour is useful defined as a _____ of responses rather than a specific behaviour
Class
Simply our reindeer S are those consequences that ______ a behaviour while punished are those consequences that __ a behaviour
Strengthen
Weaken
More specifically a reinforcer is a consequence that ___ a behaviour and _____ the probsblittvofvthatvbehaviour
A punished is a consequent that ______ a behaviour and ______ the orobsblith of that behaviour
Follows
Increases
Follows
Decreases
The term reinforcement and punishment refer to the _______ or _______ whereby a behaviour is strengthen or weakened by its consequences
Process
procedure
Strengthening a roommates tendency toward clue less by thanking her when she cleans the bathroom is an example of ______ while thanks itself is a _______
Reinforcement
Reinforcer
Eliminating a dos tendency to jump on visitors by scolding her when she does do is an example of ______ while the scolding itesdel is a _______
Punishment
Punisher
Reinforcers and punishes are defined by their _______ on behaviour for this reason the term reinforcer is often preferred to the term ______ because the latter is too closely associated with events that are commonly regarded as pleasant or desirable
Effect
Reward
When moe stick his finger in the light socket he recueved an electric shock as a result he now sticks his fingers in the light socket as often as possible
By definition the elite shock was a _______ as it ______the behaviours frequency
Reinforcer
Increased
Each time Edna talked out in class her teacher immediately came over and gave her a hug as a result Edna no longer talked out in class by definition the hug is a _____ because the following behaviour _____ in frequency
Punisher
Decreased
When labelling an operant conditioning procedure punishing consequences (punishes) are given the symbol _______ which stand for
While reinforcers are given the symbol ______ which stands for _____ __
The operant response is given the symbol _____
SP punishing stimulus
SR reinforcing stimulus
R response
