week 4

Question 1

instrumental conditioning

Answer 1

behavior is instrumental in producing specific outcome

Question 2

operant conditioning

Answer 2

learning to operate on the environment to produce specific outcome

Question 3

matching law

Answer 3

rate of responding of two operant

Question 4

Premack’s probability theory

Answer 4

high-frequent activity can increase low-frequent activity

Question 5

response deprivation theory

Answer 5

an activity will become a reinforcemenet if access to that activity is restricted

Question 6

PREE

Answer 6

extinction proceeds slower after partial reinforcement schedule than after continuous reinforcement schedule

Question 7

negative effects of positive reinforcements

Answer 7

undermines intrinsic motivation and sometimes motivation gets too strong

Question 8

este’s motivation theory

Answer 8

punishment surpresses motivation to emit target behavior

Question 9

omission training

Answer 9

child must not display a certain behavior for a certain amount of time in order to get a reward

Question 10

response cost

Answer 10

undesired response results in either the withdrawal of or failure to obtain material or social reinforcement

Question 11

time-out from reinforcement

Answer 11

period of time during which reinforcement is unavailable