Quiz 7-9

Question 1

At Hogwarts, Gryffindor has the most points of any house - until one day,​ Harry Potter​ sleeps through Potions. Professor Snape, the potions instructor, deducts one hundred thousand points from Gryffindor.

Answer 1

Negative Punishment

Question 2

A ​woodpecker​ taps on a soft spot in a tree and produces a tasty grub. The woodpecker readily moves to another soft spot and tries again.

Answer 2

Positive reinforcement

Question 3

Frankie the dog​ has a tendency of running into other people’s yards. Frankie’s owners buy and activate an “invisible fence”, which involves having Frankie wear a collar which delivers a mild but irritating shock when he crosses over a wire buried in the yard.

Answer 3

Positive punishment

Question 4

In one of your classes, getting the professor to talk about her research puts her in a really good mood, which causes her to give less homework. ​One of your classmates​ starts asking her more about her research towards the end of every class.

Answer 4

Negative reinforcement

Question 5

Action-Outcome: Harry Potter

Answer 5

Action: sleeping in class
Outcome: losing points

Question 6

Action-Outcome: Woodpecker

Answer 6

Action: tapping on tree
Outcome: grub

Question 7

Action-Outcome: Frankie the dog

Answer 7

Action: running through yards
Outcome: shock

Question 8

Action-Outcome: classmate

Answer 8

Action: asking about research
Outcome: less homework

Question 9

T or F: Actions occur in pavlovian learning but are not required for the outcome to occur.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

T or F: Actions occur in operant learning but are not required for the outcome to occur.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Goal directed (A-O) or habitual (C-A): Even though the pizza place closed, you still go straight past Target when you are walking home and then have to backtrack home

Answer 11

Habitual/cue-action

Question 12

Goal directed (A-O) or habitual (C-A): Even though the pizza place closed, you still go straight past Target when you are walking home because your crush lives on that street, and maybe you will just casually bump into them omg

Answer 12

Goal-directed/action-outcome

Question 13

Goal directed (A-O) or habitual (C-A): Whenever you turn on your phone, you look at twitter to see if you have any new likes on yet another of your hilarious tweets

Answer 13

Goal-directed/action-outcome

Question 14

Goal directed (A-O) or habitual (C-A): Whenever you turn on your phone, you look at twitter before you remember everyone stopped following you

Answer 14

Habitual/cue-action

Question 15

What does the matching law describe?

If there are two response options, where A pays off twice as often as B, then:

Answer 15

Animals will respond at A twice as often as at B

Question 16

Which is the following is the best example of the Premack principle in real life?

Answer 16

After studying a whole chapter, you have a strong desire to clean your room`

Question 17

What is the major difference between Fixed schedules of reinforcement and Variable/Random schedules of reinforcement?

Answer 17

After earning a reinforcer, animals and people tend to pause when under a fixed schedule, but keep responding when under a variable schedule

Question 18

In a two-arm bandit decision making task, which pattern of responding signals a higher level of ​exploration​?

Answer 18

Win-shift, lose-shift

Question 19

In a two-arm bandit decision making task, which pattern of responding signals a higher level of ​exploitation​?

Answer 19

Win-stay, lose-stay