This reinforcer affects behavior by taking something away. What type of reinforcer is being described?
negative
What is an automatic, involuntary response to a stimulus?
UR
After spontaneous recovery, is the link between CS and CR stronger or weaker than before?
weaker
Your parents say "Thank you!" when they realize you folded laundry yesterday, but they didn't say anything today or four days ago or last week. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
variable ratio
A type of active learning where a behavior is made more or less likely to occur because of the reaction to that behavior
operant conditionig
Hayley's phone was taken away when she did not clean her room. Mom wants Hayley to clean her room, so is this situation adding/subtracting/increasing/decreasing: is it positive or negative, reinforcement or punishment?
negative reinforcement
One day next week, there will be a surprise test. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
variable interval
Sometimes a parent gives his son 20 lira for making good grades. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
variable ratio
Hayley used profanity and her mom heard it, so now Hayley has to wash the dishes after dinner every night for a month. This is an example of:
positive punishment
The smoke detector in Jesse's house is low on batteries. It emits an annoying chirp every few seconds. Jesse installs a new battery so the noise stops. This is an example of....Positive, Negative. Reinforcement, Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
The process of incrementally training a behavior ("getting closer", like the game of hot and cold), is called what?
Shaping
When the reinforcement reappears, the conditioned response reappears, a little less strong than before. What is the term for the reappearing response?
spontaneous recovery
Ginger the dog learned to "sit" when Nadia held her hand out. When Ethan's finger-snap made Nadia hold her hand out, Ginger was conditioned to sit when Ethan snapped his fingers. What sort of conditioning is this?
Higher-order conditioning
Sheila smiles whenever she sees a blue plastic knife. When she was younger, her father always used a blue plastic knife to cut sour tangerines for her, which made her happy when she ate them. What is the conditioned stimulus?
Blue Plastic Knife
Waiting for your phone screen to light up with a notification is an example of what type of reinforcement schedule?
Variable Interval