A tennis coach works with players to improve the accuracy of their backhand stroke with successive attempts to produce more hits on target each week of the season. The coach is using a form of conditioning known as
A. stimulus generalization.
B. shaping.
C. punishment.
D. discrimination.
Question 2A teacher places a check mark on the chalkboard next to Henry's name whenever Henry speaks out in class without raising his hand. If he receives three check marks in one day, Henry gets no recess the following day. The teacher is using
A. classical conditioning.
B. operant conditioning.
C. extinction.
D. shaping.
Question 3From his observations of cats escaping from a puzzle box to obtain a piece of fish, Thorndike developed a theory that is known as
A. the law of operant conditioning.
B. the law of effect.
C. the law of consequences.
D. the law of association.
Question 4Marlene's desk becomes so messy that on occasion she cannot find an important paper she is looking for. After several incidents in which she suffered the consequences of not finding a paper she needed (such as a homework assignment), she learned to organize and straighten her desk. Marlene learned this new behavior through which operant conditioning procedure?
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Punishment
D. Extinction
Question 5John's mother wants her son to stop crying every time something goes wrong. Following a psychologist's advice, she stops running to comfort John whenever the boy starts crying over some minor incident. After a few weeks, she notices that John cries much less frequently than he used to. This is an example of
A. positive reinforcement.
B. negative reinforcement.
C. punishment.
D. extinction.
Question 6Edward Thorndike observed cats learning to escape from boxes to obtain a piece of fish and derived from these observations the law of effect. This was an early statement of
A. classical conditioning.
B. operant conditioning.
C. shaping.
D. stimulus generalization.
Question 7Which procedure might you use if you wanted to decrease the frequency of a response?
A. Negative reinforcement
B. Extinction
C. Generalization
D. Shaping
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