Exam 30: Conditioning and Learning: Operant Conditioning

A politician who irritates you is being interviewed on the evening news.You change channels so you won't have to listen to him.Your channel changing is

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Define discriminative stimuli,and provide two real-life examples of its use.

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Answer will include that discriminative stimuli is stimuli that precede rewarded and non-rewarded responses in operant conditioning.Examples will vary,but may include the use of stimuli that allow us to discriminate among different brands of cars,different types of music,or different Answer:s on a psychology test.Another discriminative stimuli are the red and green traffic lights that indicate when it is safe to cross the intersection.A police car is also a discriminative stimulus that indicates that you are likely to get a ticket if you speed,tailgate,or improperly change lanes.Animal trainers use hand signals as discriminative stimuli to control the performance of the animals.Using different ring tones on a cell phone would also be an example of using discriminative stimuli in which you use one ring tone for people you want to speak to,one for people you do not,and another for calls from strangers.Lastly,"sniffer" dogs that locate drugs and explosives at airports and border crossings are taught to respond and bark to these dangerous stimuli and not to nonhazardous ones.

Operant conditioning involves voluntary responses being emitted by the animal or person and is also known as _______ learning.

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A child who is a model of behavior when his parents are present,but who becomes uncontrollable when the babysitter arrives,is demonstrating

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You walk out into bright sunlight.You immediately reach in your purse and get your sunglasses.Putting on your sunglasses to escape the sun's bright light is an example of

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Responding is reliably increased by

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A young boy has been told by his father not to go near the street.The boy looks at his father and then runs toward the busy street.His father catches the young boy before he makes it to the street and spanks him for this misbehavior.The young boy stops going near the street due to the consequence known as

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While shopping with you,your niece begs for a toy and then has a temper tantrum in the store.If you buy her a toy,you are

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Anthony wears his lucky socks every time he has a baseball game because the socks were accidentally paired with a good RBI.Anthony's behavior is an example of

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We pick up phones that are ringing,but rarely answer phones that are silent,which illustrates the concept of stimulus control.

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In operant conditioning,any event that reliably increases the probability or frequency of the response it follows is called a(n)

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The process through which a response is taught by rewarding successive approximations to the final desired response is called

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In Thorndike's law of effect,events critical for conditioning

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A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house.To extinguish this response,you would

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If you make a snide remark to the school bully and you get "beat up," you will be less likely to make another snide remark to this bully due to the consequence known as

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Sieta wants to teach her daughter to say "Please" when she asks for something,so she decides to only comply with her daughter's request for something when her daughter says "Please." Thus,Sieta's compliance to her daughter's request is

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In Thorndike's law of effect,events critical for conditioning occur before the response.

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Negative reinforcement occurs when a response

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A dog participating in dog agility training must navigate a variety of obstacles,such as jumping over hurdles,walking over seesaws,and running through tunnels with its trainer only able to reinforce the dog with a snack or hug after the dog completes the entire sequence.This dog training is accomplished through

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What do positive and negative reinforcement have in common?

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Exam 30: Conditioning and Learning: Operant Conditioning

A politician who irritates you is being interviewed on the evening news.You change channels so you won't have to listen to him.Your channel changing is

Define discriminative stimuli,and provide two real-life examples of its use.

Operant conditioning involves voluntary responses being emitted by the animal or person and is also known as _______ learning.

A child who is a model of behavior when his parents are present,but who becomes uncontrollable when the babysitter arrives,is demonstrating

You walk out into bright sunlight.You immediately reach in your purse and get your sunglasses.Putting on your sunglasses to escape the sun's bright light is an example of

Responding is reliably increased by

While shopping with you,your niece begs for a toy and then has a temper tantrum in the store.If you buy her a toy,you are

Anthony wears his lucky socks every time he has a baseball game because the socks were accidentally paired with a good RBI.Anthony's behavior is an example of

We pick up phones that are ringing,but rarely answer phones that are silent,which illustrates the concept of stimulus control.

In operant conditioning,any event that reliably increases the probability or frequency of the response it follows is called a(n)

The process through which a response is taught by rewarding successive approximations to the final desired response is called

In Thorndike's law of effect,events critical for conditioning

A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house.To extinguish this response,you would

If you make a snide remark to the school bully and you get "beat up," you will be less likely to make another snide remark to this bully due to the consequence known as

Sieta wants to teach her daughter to say "Please" when she asks for something,so she decides to only comply with her daughter's request for something when her daughter says "Please." Thus,Sieta's compliance to her daughter's request is

In Thorndike's law of effect,events critical for conditioning occur before the response.

Negative reinforcement occurs when a response

What do positive and negative reinforcement have in common?

Introduction

How to Study Psychology

Introducing Psychology: Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Science

Introducing Psychology: Psychology Then and Now

Introducing Psychology: the Psychology Experiment

Introducing Psychology: Non-Experimental Research Methods

Psychology in Action: Thinking Critically About the Media

Brain and Behavior: Neurons and the Nervous System

Brain and Behavior: Brain Research

Brain and Behavior: Hemispheres and Lobes of the Cortex

Brain and Behavior: Sub-Cortex and Endocrine System

Psychology in Action: Handedness

Human Development: Heredity and Environment

Human Development: Emotional and Social Development in Childhood

Human Development: Language and Cognitive Development in Childhood

Human Development: Adolescence and Adulthood

Psychology in Action: Well-Being and Happiness

Sensation and Perception: Sensory Processes

Sensation and Perception: Vision

Sensation and Perception: The Other Senses

Sensation and Perception: Perceptual Processes

Sensation and Perception: Perception and Objectivity

Psychology in Action: Extrasensory Perception

Consciousness: States of Consciousness

Consciousness: Sleep and Dreams

Consciousness: Psychoactive Drugs

Psychology in Action: Exploring and Using Dreams

Conditioning and Learning: Types of Learning

Conditioning and Learning: Classical Conditioning

Conditioning and Learning: Reinforcement and Punishment

Psychology in Action: Behavioral Self-Management

Memory: Memory Systems

Memory: Forgetting

Memory: Exceptional Memory and Improving Memory

Psychology in Action: Mnemonics

Cognition and Intelligence: Imagery, Concepts, and Language

Cognition and Intelligence: Problem Solving

Cognition and Intelligence: Creative Thinking and Intuition

Cognition and Intelligence: Intelligence

Psychology in Action: Enhancing Creativity

Motivation and Emotion: Overview of Motives and Emotions

Motivation and Emotion: Motivation in Detail

Motivation and Emotion: Emotion in Detail

Psychology in Action: Emotional Intelligence

Human Sexuality: Sexual Development and Orientation

Human Sexuality: Gender Development, Androgyny, and Gender Variance

Human Sexuality: Sexual Behavior, Response, and Attitudes

Psychology in Action: Sexual Problems

Personality: Overview of Personality

Personality: Trait Theories

Personality: Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Theories

Personality: Behavioral and Social Learning Theories

Psychology in Action: Understanding Shyness

Health, Stress, and Coping: Health Psychology

Health, Stress, and Coping: Stress, Frustration, and Conflict

Health, Stress, and Coping: Defenses, Helplessness, and Depression

Health, Stress, and Coping: Stress and Health

Psychology in Action: Stress Management

Psychological Disorders: Normality and Psychopathology

Psychological Disorders: Psychosis, Delusional Disorders, and Schizophrenia

Psychological Disorders: Mood Disorders