Introduction to Psychology 1/IPSY102/Operant conditioning and observational learning/Quiz

Review questions

Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:

• ________ is when you take away a pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.
  • positive reinforcement
    • Incorrect.
  • negative reinforcement
    • Incorrect.
  • positive punishment
    • Incorrect.
  • negative punishment
    • Correct.
• Which of the following is not an example of a primary reinforcer?
  • food
    • Incorrect.
  • money
    • Correct.
  • water
    • Incorrect.
  • sex
    • Incorrect.
• Rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior is ________.
  • shaping
    • Correct.
  • extinction
    • Incorrect.
  • positive reinforcement
    • Incorrect.
  • negative reinforcement
    • Incorrect.
• Slot machines reward gamblers with money according to which reinforcement schedule?
  • fixed ratio
    • Incorrect.
  • variable ratio
    • Correct.
  • fixed interval
    • Incorrect.
  • variable interval
    • Incorrect.
• The person who performs a behavior that serves as an example is called a ________.
  • teacher
    • Incorrect.
  • model
    • Correct.
  • instructor
    • Incorrect.
  • coach
    • Incorrect.
• In Bandura’s Bobo doll study, when the children who watched the aggressive model were placed in a room with the doll and other toys, they ________.
  • ignored the doll
    • Incorrect.
  • played nicely with the doll
    • Incorrect.
  • played with tinker toys
    • Incorrect.
  • kicked and threw the doll
    • Correct.
• Which is the correct order of steps in the modeling process?
  • attention, retention, reproduction, motivation
    • Correct.
  • motivation, attention, reproduction, retention
    • Incorrect.
  • attention, motivation, retention, reproduction
    • Incorrect.
  • motivation, attention, retention, reproduction
    • Incorrect.
• Who proposed observational learning?
  • Ivan Pavlov
    • Incorrect.
  • John Watson
    • Incorrect.
  • Albert Bandura
    • Correct.
  • B. F. Skinner
    • Incorrect.

Sources

• OpenStax, Psychology. OpenStax CNX. Oct 31, 2016 Download for free at http://cnx.org/contents/4abf04bf-93a0-45c3-9cbc-2cefd46e68cc@5.52.