Your roommate is terribly messy and has a habit of leaving his/her clothes all over the bathroom floor despite your pleas to put them in the hamper. How might you use shaping to alter your roommate's behavior? Include the successive behaviors, the specific end goal/behavior, and the proposed reinforcers in your description.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2A fifth-grade girl disrupted the other students at her worktable and is sent to a small room by herself for 15 minutes. After her first removal, her disruptive behavior increased in frequency. Briefly state the dynamics of this situation.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Explain the similarities between negative reinforcement and punishment.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4All of the following are implications for classroom assessment, according to operant
conditioning, except
a. complex multiple-choice items allow for accurate summative assessment.
b. constructed responses are essential in determining learning.
c. shaping from simple to complex allows for informal and formative assessment.
d. transfer of stimulus control is essential for learning.
Ques. 5Which of the following, according to Skinner, is a problem with Thorndike's conceptualization of behavioral change?
a. It relies on behavioral consequences.
b. It relies on the term satisfying.
c. It utilizes continual contingencies
d. It utilizes modeled behavior.
Ques. 6According to operant conditioning, behavior that appears to be intrinsically motivated may be
a. induced by the curiosity of the learner.
b. initiated through a vicarious response.
c. maintained by unobservable reinforcers.
d. occurring in response to a model.
Ques. 7According to Skinner, all of the following are basic problems with education except
a. modeling is not used frequently.
b. the inappropriate use of rewards and punishment.
c. schools have neglected the self-management of learning.
d. students learn primarily through avoidance.
Ques. 8Social practices that are maintained by the contingencies provided by members of a group are referred to as
a. a culture.
b. a set of maxims.
c. rule-governed behavior.
d. survival behavior.
Ques. 9Precurrent responses are defined by Skinner as behaviors that
a. influence other behaviors.
b. influence reinforcement contingencies.
c. prepare for learning.
d. process information.
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