Deck 3: Operant Conditioning for Dummies Part II

Question 1

To get the best learning, how quickly should you deliver the reinforcer when reinforcing a response?

A) Immediately
B) After a 10 second delay
C) Between 20 and 25 seconds
D) Within 60 seconds

Answer 1

A

Question 2

How quickly must the reinforcer be delivered to be considered immediate reinforcement?

A) Within 60 seconds
B) Within 1 second
C) Within 3 minutes
D) Within 10 seconds

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Approximately, what's the greatest delay you can have between the reinforcer and the response and still get learning?

A) 1 hour
B) 60 seconds
C) 2 minutes
D) 10 seconds

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which one is not a rule of contingency contracting?

A) Immediately deliver the reinforcer
B) Put it in writing
C) Have effective behavioral consequences
D) Performance not monitored once a week turns into Jell-O
E) Specify the contingencies clearly

Question 5

If I read this chapter carefully, underline, look over my underlines, and think about it, then one hour after I've done all that and go to class, I'll really rock it and the instructor will really respect me. (Select all the correct answers.)

A) Describes a behavioral contingency
B) Describes a positive reinforcement contingency
C) Describes a negative reinforcement contingency
D) Describes a respondent contingency
E) Describes the opportunity for contingency-shaped behavior
F) Can result in rule-governed behavior

Question 6

Mark recorded a "+" sign on a piece of paper when he noticed he was actually studying during class, and a "-" sign when he noticed that he wasn't. This is an example of:

A) Respondent conditioning
B) Respondent behavior
C) Self-exploitation
D) Self-management

Question 7

She winks at him as he enters the classroom. He smiles. The next time he enters the classroom, he smiles, before she has a chance to wink. Is his second smile a result of the law of effect?

A) Absolutely, yes.
B) No, of course not.

Question 8

Every time Malott presses the lever Kohler gives him an M&M. So he starts pressing the lever at an impressively high rate. Select all that this is an example of:

A) Respondent conditioning
B) Respondent behavior
C) Operant conditioning
D) Operant behavior
E) The law of effect
F) A behavioral contingency
G) Self-exploitation
H) Positive reinforcement

Question 9

Read the examples below and match the letter with the corresponding scenario
-Rule-governed behavior

A) Your partner says, "If you clean up this mess you've made, I'll give you a bowl of M&Ms." And you clean up the mess.
B) Rudolph the rat presses the lever and gets a pellet of food.

Question 10

Read the examples below and match the letter with the corresponding scenario
-Contingency-shaped behavior

A) Your partner says, "If you clean up this mess you've made, I'll give you a bowl of M&Ms." And you clean up the mess.
B) Rudolph the rat presses the lever and gets a pellet of food.

Question 11

You agree to pay your concerned roommate $5 every time you fail to spend one hour every workday morning studying Principles of Behavior. This is an example of (select all that apply):

A) The dumbest thing you ever heard of
B) Contingency contract
C) Behavioral contract
D) Illegal contract
E) Performance contract
F) Respondent conditioning

Question 12

Select the rules of contingency contracting.

A) Put it in writing
B) Have effective behavioral consequences
C) Performance not monitored once a week turns to Jell-O
D) Specify the contingencies clearly

Question 13

Self-management involves a contingency contract

Question 14

Select the major components of a self-management contingency contract.

A) selecting the desired or undesired behavior
B) selecting the occasion when the behavior should or should not occur
C) modifying the environment to increase the likelihood that those goals can be reached
D) monitoring/recording that behavior
E) unconditioned behavior
F) selecting the added outcome for that behavior
G) conditioned eliciting stimuli
H) presenting that outcome

Question 15

What's an example of operant conditioning?

A) Skinner's rat pressing the lever
B) Pavlov's dog salivating

Question 16

What's an example of operant behavior?

A) Skinner's rat pressing the lever
B) Pavlov's dog salivating

Question 17

The authors of Principles of Behavior think the law of effect is

A) trivial and obvious
B) the most important law in psychology

Question 18

To avoid looking like a pompous, little brat, when talking to Mommy and Daddy, which should you say?

A) Reward
B) Positive reinforcer

Question 19

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The effects of our actions determine whether we will repeat them.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 20

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Behavior under the control of a rule.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 21

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Reinforcing or punishing consequences immediately following a response increase or decrease its future frequency.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 22

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-A rule statement describing the desired or undesired behavior, the occasion when the behavior should or should not occur, and the added outcome for that behavior.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 23

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Behavior that operates on the environment and is influenced by its reinforcing or punishing consequences.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 24

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-A description of a behavioral contingency.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 25

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Behavior under the control of a direct-acting contingency.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 26

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The use of a contingency contract where the person whose behavior is being managed determines/performs one or more components of that contract.

A) Rule
B) Rule-governed behavior
C) Contingency-shaped behavior
D) Contingency contract
E) Self-management
F) Operant conditioning
G) Operant behavior
H) The law of effect

Question 27

Fill in the Blank

-Rule
$\bullet$ A __________________of a behavioral ___________________.

Question 28

Fill in the Blank

-Rule-governed behavior
$\bullet$ _________________ under the _____________of a rule.

Question 29

Fill in the Blank

-Contingency-shaped behavior
$\bullet$ Behavior under the _______________of a direct-acting ______________.

Question 30

Fill in the Blank

-Contingency contract
$\bullet$ A _____________________statement describing
$\bullet$ the desired or undesired_____________________,
$\bullet$ the ________ _________when the behavior should or should not occur, and
$\bullet$ the added __________________ for that behavior.

Question 31

Fill in the Blank

-Self-management
$\bullet$ The use of a contingency ____________________
$\bullet$ where the ______ _______________whose behavior is being managed
$\bullet$ ___________ ___________one or more components of that contract.

Question 32

Fill in the Blank

-Operant conditioning
$\bullet$ _______________________or punishing consequences
$\bullet$ immediately following a _______________________
$\bullet$ increase or decrease it future ______________________.

Question 33

Fill in the Blank

-Operant behavior
$\bullet$ Behavior that operates on the ____________________
$\bullet$ and is influenced by its reinforcing or punishing ____________________

Question 34

Fill in the Blank

-The law of effect
$\bullet$ The effects of our ______________________
$\bullet$ determine whether we will _________________them.

Question 35

Define the following concepts:
-Rule

Question 36

Define the following concepts:
-Rule-governed behavior

Question 37

Define the following concepts:
-Contingency-shaped behavior

Question 38

Define the following concepts:
-Contingency contract

Question 39

Define the following concepts:
-Operant conditioning

Question 40

Define the following concepts:
-Operant behavior

Question 41

Define the following concepts:
-The law of effect

Question 42

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Rule

Question 43

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Rule-governed behavior

Question 44

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Contingency-shaped behavior

Question 45

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Contingency contract

Question 46

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Self-management

Question 47

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Operant conditioning

Question 48

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Operant behavior

Question 49

Give a brief example of each of the following
-The law of effect

Question 50

To get the best learning, how quickly should you give the reinforce when reinforcing a response.

Question 51

And roughly, what's the greatest delay you could have between the reinforcer and the response, to get any learning.

Question 52

How immediate is immediate.

Question 53

What's a good example of rule-governed behavior, and what behavioral concepts do and don't apply?

Question 54

Describe the use of the contingency contracting. List and illustrate the four rules of contingency contracting.

Question 55

Give two or three examples of self-management projects students have done?

Question 56

Give an example of a self-management project that you'd like to do, or at least should, even if you wouldn't like to do it.

Question 57

What are the six major components of a self-management contingency contract?

Question 58

Give an example of self-management in a classroom.

Question 59

Comment on the value of the law of effect.