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Question 28
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What is the aim of reinforcement - be it positive and negative?
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Choice (5) | Response | |
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a. | To decrease the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated | |
b. | To decrease the likelihood that a negative reinforcer will follow a behavior | |
c. | To increase the likelihood that the preceding behavior will be repeated | |
d. | To ensure there are no negative consequences following the behavior | |
e. | To add a primary reinforcer after someone does a proper behavior |
Question 29
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An operant conditioning procedure that involves the positive reinforcement of successive approximations of an initially improbable behavior to eventually bring about that behavior is known as:
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Choice (5) | Response | |
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a. | shaping | |
b. | secondary reinforcer | |
c. | discriminative stimulus | |
d. | punishment | |
e. | primary reinforcer |
Question 30
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Which of the following best explains E. L. Thorndike՚s law of effect?
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Choice (5) | Response | |
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a. | Behaviors are strengthened by positive consequences and weakened by negative ones. | |
b. | Behaviors are reinforced through primary reinforcers. | |
c. | The stimuli of food, water, and sex are innately satisfying and require no learning. | |
d. | Receiving reinforcement every time a person performs a good deed, continuous reinforcement, will increase the likelihood that the person will continue that behavior. | |
e. | Behaviors that are negatively reinforced are more likely to discontinue than behaviors that are punished. |