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The process of changing behavior in which reinforcement or punishment is contingent on the occurrence of a particular behavior
Operant Conditioning
This is when a behavior is strengthened and the probability of it recurring increases because a positive condition was the result.
Positive reinforcement
It is a type of schedule when the organism is reinforced for every response.
Continuous reinforcement
Whenever Kylah's students behave well, she reduces their amount of homework for that night. This is an example of what aspect of operant conditioning?
Negative reinforcement
The proponent of behavioral analysis and the founder of experimental analysis of behavior.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (B.F. Skinner)
This refers to the presentation of an aversive stimulus or the removal of a positive stimulus.
Punishment
The schedule of reinforcement preferred by Skinner as it produces responses that are more resistant to extinction.
Mr. Jones is in the habit of offering extra-credit points on the next exam to students who contribute to class discussions. What kind of reinforcement strategy is Mr. Jones using to encourage class participation?
Positive reinforcement
It is a device used to objectively record an animal’s behavior in a compressed time frame.
It is any aversive stimulus that, when removed from the environment, increases the probability of a given behavior.
Negative reinforcer
A schedule in which the organism is reinforced intermittently according to the number of responses it makes.
Fixed-ratio schedule
Joseph forgot to take out the trash as part of his weekly chores, so his parents took away his video game privileges for the rest of the week. Joseph's parents are using which of the following principles of Operant Conditioning?
Negative punishment
It refers to B. F. Skinner's viewpoint that cognition and emotions are covert behavior that are to be subjected to the same conditions as overt behavior.
Radical Behaviorism
These are environmental stimuli that are not by nature satisfying but become so because they are associated with primary reinforcers
Secondary reinforcers (Conditioned reinforcers)
A type of intermittent schedule in which the organism is reinforced after the lapse of random or varied periods of time.
Variable-interval schedule
Timmy's parents give him a dollar every time he cleans his room. Which kind of reinforcement schedule are the parents implementing?
Continuous schedule
A procedure in which the experimenter or the environment first rewards gross approximations of the behavior, then closer approximations, and finally the desired behavior itself.
Shaping
A three-term contigency developed by B.F. Skinner to shape behavior.
Stimulus, Response, Reinforcement
(Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence)
It is defined as the tendency of a previously acquired response to become progressively weakened upon nonreinforcement.
Extinction
A rabbit is in a cage with a red button. Regardless of how the rabbit interacts with the button, a trap door releases a food pellet every twenty minutes. This reinforcement schedule would be classified as __________.
Fixed-interval schedule