OPERANT CONDITIONING REVIEW

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OPERANT CONDITIONINGREVIEW

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

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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

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

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Scenario 1Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Positive Reinforcement

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Scenario 2

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

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Scenario 2Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Positive Reinforcement

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Scenario 3

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

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Scenario 3Answers

• ?
• Decrease Behavior
• Negative Punishment

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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.

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Scenario 4Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Positive Reinforcement

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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.

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Scenario 5Answers

• ?
• Decrease Behavior
• Positive Punishment

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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.

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Scenario 6Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Negative Reinforcement

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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.

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Scenario 7Answers

• O
• Decrease Behavior
• Extinction

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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.

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Scenario 8Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Negative Reinforcement

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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.

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Scenario 9Answers

• If you view lecture as nothing
• O
• Decrease Behavior
• Extinction
• If you view lecture as bad
• ?
• Decrease Behavior
• Positive Punishment

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Scenario 10

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

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Scenario 10Answers

• ?
• Increase Behavior
• Negative Reinforcement