Examples
When a child refuses to clean their room, so their parent takes away their video game console for a week. What is this?
a. Positive Punishment
b. Negative Punishment
c. Extinction
d. Extinction Burst
Negative Punishment
What term describes the gradual weakening and disappearance of a learned behavior due to the removal of its reinforcing consequences?
a. Conditioning
b. Habituation
c. Extinction
d. Positive Reinforcement
c. Extinction
When using negative punishment, if the stimulus is a _____ its removal will decrease the strength of the response.
a. Positive Reinforcer
b. Negative Reinforcer
a. Positive Reinforcer
True or False? You remove positive reinforcement for undesired behaviors.
False. You remove it for desired behaviors.
A dog barks excessively so the owner uses a shock collar to deter the behavior. What is this?
a. Positive Punishment
b. Negative Punishment
c. Extinction
d. Negative Reinforcer
a. Positive Punishment
Which of these means the temporary increase in the frequency, duration, or intensity of a behavior just before it extinguishes, due to the removal of its reinforcer?
a. Extinction Burst
b. Positive Punishment
c. Spontaneous Recovery
d. Negative Punishment
A. Extinction Burst
What are examples of unconditioned punishers?
a. Events that have biological importance
b. Punishers that require no conditioning to be effective
c. Painful stimuli & extreme levels of stimulation
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
d. All of the above
True or False? Extinction withholds a positive reinforcer.
True
A person has been feeding a stray cat, but they stop, and eventually, the cat stops coming around.
a. Positive punishment
b. Extinction
c. Negative punishment
d. Negative reinforcement
Extinction
Which idea means a behavior that occurs again later after it was already eliminated by extinction?
a. Conditioning Burst
b. Positive Reinforcement
c. Resurrection
d. Spontaneous Recovery
e. Delayed Recall
d. Spontaneous Recovery
When the punishment is continuous and the individual cannot escape, the punisher will?
a. Minimize the effectiveness of the punishment
b. Maximize the effectiveness of the punishment
c. The effectiveness of the punishment stays the same
b. Maximize the effectiveness of the punishment
True or False? Punishment is a thing and punisher is a process.
False. Punishment is a process and punisher is a thing.
Someone who is trying to quit nicotine is trying to fiend off of their friends at a party, is an example of what?
a. Extinction Burst
b. Extinction
c. Punishment
d. Equivocation
Extinction Burst
Multiple-baseline design can demonstrate that a particular intervention is likely to be related to ____ in the target behavior.
a. Adaptation
b. Recover
c. Change
d. Dull
c. Change
A punisher could suppress appropriate behaviors performed just before the punisher is delivered. Is this a...
a. Advantage of punishment
b. Disadvantage of punishment
c. None of the above
True or False? AO- is an antecedent that makes a stimulus more potent as a punisher.
False. It makes it less potent.