Psych Test Questions (Ch: Operant Conditioning) PDF

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Sample Test Questions: Operant Conditioning *Correct answers are highlighted in yellow Short answer: 1. You are teaching a child to identify three different animals. You show them a picture of a cow, a horse, and a chicken. Upon pointing to each photo, you say what it is (i.e., Point to the horse and say “horse,” point to the cow and say “cow” etc.) After some time, you point to the pictures and wait for the child to identify what animal it is. When the child says the correct animal, you give them verbal reinforcement by smiling and clapping. When you point to a picture and the child says the wrong animal, no reinforcement is given. Based on this experiment, identify the S delta and the S aversives for showing the child a picture of a horse. ● Picture of horse is an S delta to say horse and an S aversive to day cow or chicken 2. A mother notices her son doing his homework without asking and rewards him by giving him his favorite piece of candy, so he will be more likely to do his homework in the future. What type of learning behavior is the mother using? a. Positive punishment b. Negative punishment c. Positive reinforcement d. Negative reinforcement 3. Rats were set up in a cage with two lights, one red and one green. After several trials, the rats learned to press the lever only when the green light flashed because they were rewarded with food to the green light and not red. Then a third light was added, a darker shade of green. When the new dark green signal came on, the rat still pressed the lever. Throughout the rest of the study, the rat equally pressed the lever to both shades of green but not to the red light. If you were to graph the rat's generalization gradient to the green light, which graph would be the most accurate?

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