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  • Created on: 01-05-18 11:13

1. What is shaping in operant conditioning?

  • Signal that a particular response will produce certain consequences
  • Discriminative stimuli influence behaviour e.g. sight of police car changes driving style.
  • Reinforcing successive approximations towards desired responses to teach new behaviours
  • Sequence of events which provide opportunities to reach final event.
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2. What is habituation?

  • Decreased response to a sudden stimulus dictated by the nervous system
  • Decreased response to a repeated stimulus dictated by one's genes
  • Decreased response to a repeated stimulus dictated by the nervous system
  • Increased response to a sudden stimulus dictated by the nervous system

3. What is the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers?

  • Primary satisfy biological needs and secondary create possible opportunity to satisfy biological need indirectly
  • Primary satisfy biological needs and secondary satisfy emotional needs
  • Primary are consequences we inflict on ourselves and secondary are consequences inflicted by others
  • Primary satisfy emotional needs and secondary are associated with biological needs

4. Which of these studies is associated with operant conditioning?

  • Thorndike's cat
  • Pavlov's dog
  • Bobo dolls
  • Little Albert

5. Which of these does NOT describe a feature of classical conditioning?

  • Works best under repeated pairings, intense stimulus and short time intervals
  • Association of two stimulus resulting in the neutral stimulus producing the same response as the first.
  • Works best using backward pairing = Presenting the neutral stimulus after the unconditioned stimulus
  • Higher order conditioning = Conditioning of a neutral stimulus by pairing with an already conditioned stimulus

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