Complete the following exercises to test your understanding of (a) the various types of consequences that can occur in operant conditioning, (b) the schedules of reinforcement in operant conditioning and (c) the differences between classical conditioning, operant conditioning and social learning.
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| 1890580923 | A student fails an assignment because the marker found evidence of plagiarism. | Punishment | 0 | |
| 1890580924 | Giovanni enjoys being the centre of attention at a party. He likes to tell jokes and make everybody laugh. Unfortunately, he has been telling inappropriate jokes during morning tea time at work. His colleagues decide to ignore his jokes instead of laughing at them | extinction | 1 | |
| 1890580925 | Vesna puts up an umbrella so that she will not get wet during a storm | negative reinforcement | 2 | |
| 1890580926 | Daniel gives an employee a bonus because of their increased productivity | positive reinforcement | 3 | |
| 1890580927 | Every time Tirta puts money in the chocolate machine, he gets a chocolate | Continuous reinforcement | 4 | |
| 1890580928 | Timiko earns her pay by performing at local cultural events held approximately every two weeks | variable interval | 5 | |
| 1890580929 | Yasmin is studying for a mathematics exam. To motivate herself to study, she decides to reward herself with a Tim Tam biscuit for every five problems she completes | fixed ratio | 6 | |
| 1890580930 | Bruce is a retired professional athlete. He signs a contract that allows him to provide expert commentary at the Olympic Games every four years | fixed interval | 7 | |
| 1890580931 | Dean likes to visit the casino to play the pokies. Sometimes, he wins money after putting in just a few coins. Other times, he has to put in $20 worth of coins before he wins any money | variable ratio | 8 | |
| 1890580932 | Every time Nola feeds her cat, she tinkles a spoon on the can of cat food. Eventually, her cat starts meowing whenever he hears a tinkling sound in the kitchen. | Classical conditioning | 9 | |
| 1890580933 | Lucienne has worked as an apprentice chef for the past three years. The new head chef is delighted with her culinary skills and constantly praises her in front of the other apprentices. After a couple of weeks of constant praise, Lucienne starts to feel happy as soon as she arrives at work. She begins to work longer hours more often because she really enjoys the supportive work environment | combination of classical conditioning and operant conditioning | 10 | |
| 1890580934 | Joe in the Big Smoke is a hit television show with a string of television drama awards to the producer's credit. During the past year, the producer decided to sway from the show's usual story plots and try something different. The show did not receive high ratings and failed to win the 'best drama' award for the first time in three years. The following year, the producer reverted to the old story plots | operant conditioning | 11 | |
| 1890580935 | Murray's girlfriend was about to arrive for dinner, when Murray remembered that he had not prepared any dessert. He quickly whipped up a sponge pudding, remembering how to make it from watching his mother | social learning | 12 | |
| 1890584502 | only some are reinforced | Partial reinforcement | 13 | |
| 1890585633 | --every target response is reinforced quick to train, easy to have extinct | continuous reinforcement | 14 | |
| 1890589561 | -- initial learning process -- greater the # of times paired, the stronger the conditionded stimulus | Acquisition | 15 | |
| 1890593780 | -- Conditioned stimulus/response are no longer paired | extinction | 16 | |
| 1890595481 | display response that didn't use to happen | spontaneous recovery | 17 | |
| 1890597913 | -- No emphasis on cultural factors -- No emphasis on cognative factors (drug mixed w/ alcohol) -- No emphasis on biological factors | Limitations of Behaviorism | 18 | |
| 1890602157 | always developing cognative maps | latent learning | 19 | |
| 1890603529 | learning by watching/listening to other peole | observational learning | 20 |
