operant conditioning

Question 1

the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning

Answer 1

cc- forms associations between two stimuli
oc- forms associations between behaviors and resulting events

Question 2

law of effect

Answer 2

responses that produce desirable results will
be learned by organism

Question 3

skinner box

Answer 3

a highly controlled environment used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals

Question 4

shaping

Answer 4

operant conditioning procedure in which reinforces guide behavior closer towards target behavior through successive approximations

Question 5

primary reinforcers

Answer 5

innately reinforcing stimulus that usually satisfy some biological need like food or drink

Question 6

secondary (conditioned) reinforcers

Answer 6

a learned reinforcer, it gets power from its association with primary reinforcer

Question 7

immediate reinforcer

Answer 7

a reinforcer that occurs closely to a behavior in time

Question 8

delayed reinforcer

Answer 8

a reinforcer that is delayed in time for a certain behavior

Question 9

positive

Answer 9

adding

Question 10

negative

Answer 10

taking away

Question 11

reinforcement

Answer 11

increases behavior

Question 12

punishment

Answer 12

decreases behavior

Question 13

positive reinforcement

Answer 13

increase in response by adding/ giving positive stimulus

Question 14

negative reinforcement

Answer 14

increase in response by removing an aversive stimulus

Question 15

partial or intermittent reinforcement

Answer 15

reinforcing a response only part of the time though results in slower acquisition in the beginning, shows greater resistance to
extinction

Question 16

continuous reinforcement

Answer 16

reinforcing the desired response each time it occurs

Question 17

ratio

Answer 17

number of times desired behavior is preformed

Question 18

interval

Answer 18

amount of time desired behavior is preformed

Question 19

fixed ratio

Answer 19

reinforces a response only after a specific number of responses

Question 20

variable ratio

Answer 20

reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses produces more responding, hard to extinguish

Question 21

fixed interval

Answer 21

reinforces a response only after a specific time has elapsed (studying the night before)

Question 22

variable interval

Answer 22

reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals, produces slow steady responding ( pop quiz)

Question 23

punishment

Answer 23

a response to an action that results in the adding or removing of a stimulus

Question 24

positive punishment

Answer 24

decrease in response by adding an aversive stimulus (adding more chores for bad grade)

Question 25

negative punishment

Answer 25

decrease in response by removing positive stimulus