Learning

Question 1

What is the principle of operant conditioning

Answer 1

Reinforcement is contingent on the organisms responding

Question 2

What are primary reinforcers

Answer 2

satisfy basic needs like food water and sex

Question 3

What are secondary reinforcers

Answer 3

allow us to get to primary reinforcers

Question 4

What is a fixed schedule?

Answer 4

reiforcemnet occurs at predictable times

Question 5

What is a variable shedule?

Answer 5

Reinforcement occurs at irregular times

Question 6

What is a ratio schedule?

Answer 6

Occurs after a certain number of appropriate responses

Question 7

What is the reiforcemmtn type that gives the highest response

Answer 7

Variable rate of reiforcment gives rise to the highest response

Question 8

Why do responses reoccur?

Answer 8

Because they have been reinforced

Question 9

How do you remove a response?

Answer 9

Remove the reinforcer

Question 10

How is an inappropriate response eliminated?

Answer 10

Punishment

Question 11

What impacts Rate of responce

Answer 11

Reiforcer increases rate of response, punishment decreases rate of response

Question 12

What are problems with punsihment?

Answer 12

Punishment can be interpreted incorrectly and actually be a reinforcer.

Question 13

What is the alternative method to getting rid of an appropriate respnce?

Answer 13

Reinforce appropriate behaviour

Question 14

How does avoidance relate to response?

Answer 14

Avoidance can be a reinforcer. For example, a kid will learn that not going to the dentist will cause no pain. Therefore, they have no desire to go.

Question 15

What is social modeling?

Answer 15

Reinforcement from sources such as media, not your parents or peers

Question 16

What did Bandura’s experiments demonstrate?

Answer 16

Children will model the actions of adults without any apparent reinforcer

Question 17

What is latent learning?

Answer 17

Learning in the absence of a reinforcer