AP Psych: Operant Conditioning Quiz

Discrimination

Fixed Interval Schedule (FI)

Punishment

Bandura

Variable Ratio Schedule (VR)

Skinner

Pavlov

Token Economy

Biological

Evironmental

• type of learning
• behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished by a punishment

• In Operant Conditioning
• Strengthens the behavior

• In Operant Conditioning
• Procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward the desired behavior

• Thorndike
• Behavior is more likely to occur with favorable consequences
• Behavior is less likely to occur with unfavorable consequences

• Food
• Sex
• Water

Is innately in everyone

• ex: Money
• Gains power because of association with primary reinforcer
• They are learned

Event that decreases behavior that it follows

Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers.

• Brings on relief
• Takes away a stimulus to increase behavior
• ex: Advil

Reinforcing the desired response everytime it occurs

• Good: Shaping occurs quickly
• Bad: Extinction occurs quickly

Only reinforces part of the time

• Good: Extinction is harder to take place
• Bad: $ and Time consuming

Doing something only to receive a reward at the end because you've done it over and over again so many times

• Fixed Ratio
• Variable Ratio
• Fixed Interval
• Variable Interval

Reinforcing the response only after a specific number of responses

ex: Car salesmen get paid by how many cars they sell (commission)

• Is the strongest
• Reinforcing the response after a unpredictable amount of responses

ex: Gambling at the casino

Only reinforce the individual after a specific period time

ex: Making cookies. They have a specific time that they need to stay in the oven.

Reinforce the individual after a variable amount of time

ex: Receiving a text message back from a friend