Unit 4 Learning

Question 1

Learning that occurs when voluntary actions become associated w their consequences.

Answer 1

Operant Conditioning

Question 2

Any consequence that increases behavior.

Answer 2

Reinforcement

Question 3

Any consequence that decreases a behavior.

Answer 3

Punishment

Question 4

Completely controlled environment used to study the effectiveness of patterns of reinforcement.

Answer 4

Skinner Box

Question 5

Organism shows new behavior.

Answer 5

Acquisition

Question 6

From of conditioning that leads subjects to perform a complex or desired behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of a desired response or behavior.

Answer 6

Shaping

Question 7

Gradual weakening and disappearance of a response bc it is no longer followed by reinforcement.

Answer 7

Extinction

Question 8

Organism continues to make a response after delivery of the reinforcer for it has been terminated.

Answer 8

Resistance to Extinction

Question 9

Reinforcing a behavior each time the behavior is shown.

Answer 9

Continuous Reinforcement

Question 10

Reinforcing behavior occasionally.

Answer 10

Intermittent Reinforcement

Question 11

The reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses.

Answer 11

Fixed-Ratio Schedule

Question 12

The reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed interval has elapsed.

Answer 12

Variable-Ratio Schedule

Question 13

The reinforcer is given for the first response after a fixed amount of time has elapsed.

Answer 13

Fixed-Interval Schedule

Question 14

The reinforcer is given for the first response after a variable amount of time has elapsed.

Answer 14

Variable-Interval Schedule

Question 15

Increasing a response by adding a pleasurable consequence.

Answer 15

Positive Reinforcement

Question 16

Increasing a response by removing an unpleasant consequence.

Answer 16

Negative Reinforcement

Question 17

Example: Jim conditioned Dwight to want an Altoid at the sound of a computer ring.

Answer 17

Classical Conditioning