Quiz 4: Learning

• Ken’s new dog would always bark at strangers when they come close to his door. Over time, it has learned to stop barking at the neighbours. This is an example of _________.

  1. Extinction
  2. Negative Punishment
  3. Generalisation
  4. Higher Order Conditioning
  5. Discrimination

  discrimination
• What example correctly illustrates a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement?

  A person continually scrolling social media to find a post they like, though they may not know when it will appear.
• Every time Bob’s cat scratches his furniture, he sprays it with water to get it to stop. What is this an example of?

  1. Positive Reinforcement
  2. Negative Reinforcement
  3. Positive Punishment
  4. Negative Punishment
  5. Classical Conditioning

  positive punishment
• Keller and Marion Breland believed that animals’ strong instinctive behaviors predominated over conditioned behaviors, which they described as ____

  1. Instinctive drift
  2. Behavioral reversal
  3. Extinction
  4. Incomplete conditioning

  instinctive drift
• health inspector who comes to inspect a store randomly twice a year

  variable interval
• students who have to take a quiz at the end of every month will begin studying closer to the end of the month

  fixed interval
• a customer who receives a reward after eating a fixed number of plates of sushi in a Japanese restaurant

  fixed ratio