Week 4

Question 1

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 1

A learning process where an organism learns to associate behaviors with their consequences, either to obtain positive outcomes or to avoid negative ones.

Question 2

What did Edward Thorndike’s law of effect state?

Answer 2

Responses that produce satisfying consequences are more likely to occur again, while those producing unsatisfying consequences are less likely to be repeated.

Question 3

What is positive and negative reinforcement

Answer 3

Positive reinforcement (adding a pleasant stimulus) or negative reinforcement (removing an unpleasant stimulus).

Question 4

What is positive and negative punishment

Answer 4

Positive punishment (adding an unpleasant stimulus) or negative punishment (removing a pleasant stimulus).