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Title: OPERANT CONDITIONING REVIEW


1
OPERANT CONDITIONINGREVIEW
  • For each example tell whether the underlined
    behavior will recur.

2
DIRECTIONS
  • Focus on the underlined behavior and identify
    whether
  • The consequence for doing that behavior was Good
    ? or Bad ? or Nothing O
  • Then determine if the behavior is likely to
    increase ( ) or decrease ( )
  • Finally say which term of operant conditioning is
    being shown
  • Neg. Reinforcement
  • Pos. Reinforcement
  • Neg. Punishment
  • Pos. Punishment
  • Extinction

3
Scenario 1
A student volunteers to answer a tough question
in class, and the teacher comments favorably on
the quality of the students contribution.

4
Scenario 1Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Positive Reinforcement

5
Scenario 2
  • A wife brings home flowers to her husband
    because of the special dinner he had cooked for
    her.

6
Scenario 2Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Positive Reinforcement

7
Scenario 3
  • A child is sent to his room with no supper
    after presenting a bad report card.

8
Scenario 3Answers
  • ?
  • Decrease Behavior
  • Negative Punishment

9
Scenario 4
  • Dad tot enter the checkout lane of the
    supermarket. When the child screams for candy,
    dad pops a sucker in her mouth to quiet her down.

10
Scenario 4Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Positive Reinforcement

11
Scenario 5
A child spills milk all over the supper table,
and Mom (having had a very bad day) swoops the
child up from the high chair and spanks him.

12
Scenario 5Answers
  • ?
  • Decrease Behavior
  • Positive Punishment

13
Scenario 6
  • A student has a terrible headache after an
    intense preparation period for a test. He takes
    two aspirin to make it go away.

14
Scenario 6Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Negative Reinforcement

15
Scenario 7
  • Two children, who usually spend most of their
    time fighting, finally play peaceably over a
    coloring book. Dad peeks in and sighs, At last,
    they are getting along. He returns to work
    without saying anything to them.

16
Scenario 7Answers
  • O
  • Decrease Behavior
  • Extinction

17
Scenario 8
  • As a spoiled child is being driven by a
    fast-food restaurant, she begins screaming that
    she must have french fries or she wont survive.
    The parents surrender and drive in for a large
    supply.

18
Scenario 8Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Negative Reinforcement

19
Scenario 9
  • A teenager whines about having nothing to do.
    Dad gives him a lecture about all the stuff in
    his room and the good old days when he, the
    father, didnt have all that stuff but still
    managed to be happy.

20
Scenario 9Answers
  • If you view lecture as nothing
  • O
  • Decrease Behavior
  • Extinction
  • If you view lecture as bad
  • ?
  • Decrease Behavior
  • Positive Punishment

21
Scenario 10
  • A terrorist applies an electric current to the
    feet of a spy to make her confess. She tells him
    everything she knows.

22
Scenario 10Answers
  • ?
  • Increase Behavior
  • Negative Reinforcement
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