Operant Conditioning
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Vocabulary
Motivation
Stressors
100

Jennie gets a gold star in her class for every time she helps clean up the classroom.

positive reinforcement 

100

Mrs. Mowery gives random reading check ups once a week to her AP lang classes. The checkups are never on the same day of the week. 

Variable Interval 

100

A toddler learned to fear moving cars and now fears moving trucks and motorcycles.

generalization 

100

Sarah studies for her test to get a good grade so she does not get in trouble at home. 

Extrinsic Motivation

100

Watching a movie instead of completing school work would be what type of emotional focused coping.

Maladaptive  

200

Josh gets yelled at after leaving his room dirty for a week. After getting yelled at, Josh no longer leaves his house with a dirty room. 

Positive Punishment

200

Lily gets her two week pay check every other Friday. 

Fixed Interval 

200

After exploring a maze, rats act if they learned the route of the map.

Cognitive map

200

Blake studies really hard for his test because he is interested in the material and wants to learn it.

Intrinsic material 

200
Making a plan for your study schedule is what type of coping?

Problem focused coping 

300

Suzy, Belle's younger sister, is able to go to the movies with Belle because Suzy throws a tantrum and then throws Belle under the bus about the time Belle snuck out. Now Suzy gets to go enjoy a movie. Use Suzy's point of view to determine the operant condition.

Positive reinforcement 

300

Amanda randomly plays the lottery and wins every other time.

Variable Ratio

300

You become sick after eating pizza, and now you have a hard time eating pizza.

Taste Aversion 

300

Luke started playing soccer at a very young age because he loved the sport.

Intrinsic Motivation

300

Betty gets into an argument with her brother and instead of them continuing to scream, Betty lowers her voice and changes her tone to resolve the argument.

Problem- focused coping 

400

Suzy, Belle's younger sister, is able to go to the movies with Belle because Suzy throws a tantrum and then throws Belle under the bus about the time Belle snuck out. Now Suzy gets to go enjoy a movie. Use Belle's point of view to determine the operant condition. 

Positive Punishment 

400

For every dollar spent at Dunkin Donuts you get two points added to your rewards.

Fixed Ratio 

400
When Blake is a baby, he reacts different to his fathers voice than to a strangers voice. 

Discrimination 

400

Bella,who does't care about getting in shape, runs a marathon in which she earns $20 for every mile.

extrinsic motivation 

400

While watching a scary movie James got on his phone every time he started to feel scared

Emotion- focused coping

500

Sally stole Jerry's pencil then Jerry hit Sally, but Sally didn't get caught and Jerry got detention. View this from Jerry's point of view.

positive punishment 

500

speed traps on highways.

Variable Interval 

500

Bonnie needs to take a shower in the morning and get ready for work, although she is tired she wakes up so she can have enough time to get ready. 

Self Control

500

At the beginning of the school year, Taylor wanted to have all A in her classes to be a good student. As the first semester was ending Taylor found herself wanting to have all A in order to please her teachers and parents.

Over justification

500

Joey's math teacher gave him a bad grade on an assignment, when he went to talk to her about it, she just told him to study harder. So he joined a study group.

Problem- focused coping

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