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Then, the lesson sets up four different stations for students to explore the details of Operant
Conditioning: a graphic organizer to differentiate between positive and negative reinforcement and
punishment; a shaping activity; a foldable to learn about the schedules of reinforcement; and a
forced choices discussion about primary and secondary reinforcers. A given scenario can show how
to apply operant conditioning to shape behavior and how the creation of a reinforcement schedule
can apply to a certain selected behavior. Such trials are called “avoidance trials.” This experiment is
said to involve classical conditioning, because a neutral CS is paired with an aversive US; this idea
underlies the two-factor theory of avoidance learning described below. We can see strengthen of
stimulus stimulus response connection and the last one that would come here, not the last one
actually There are two more that is associated associative learning And the other one is involves the
presentation. Fixed Ratio: The reward turns up every time the desired behaviour is carried out so
often. The implications of classical conditioning in the classroom are less important than those of
operant conditioning, but there is a still need for teachers to try to make sure that students associate
positive emotional experiences with learning. Source: s3.studylib.net In operant conditioning,
organisms learn to associate a behavior and its consequence (table 6.1). Classical and operant
conditioning compared. This would best be used in a Psychology or AP Psychology class as part of
the Learning unit.The PowerPoint is HIGHLY animated and is designed to capture student attention.
Schedules of reinforcements may play a big role on the animal training case. You can use this project
in AP Psychology or regular psychology. If someone has a phobia of spiders, you might reward them
at first for looking at pictures of spiders, then at a spider in the same room but far away, and
eventually for handling a spider. However, behavioral variability can itself be altered through the
manipulation of certain variables. Edward Thorndike. The Law of Effect. B.F. Skinner. The Skinner
Box. Shaping. Schedules of Reinforcement. These terms are defined by their effect on behavior.
Similarly the teacher may encourage extra play time if the kid remains silent and well behaved.
Answer to operant conditioning worksheet instructions: Classical and operant conditioning
compared. A study of patients with Parkinson’s disease, a condition attributed to the insufficient
action of dopamine, further illustrates the role of dopamine in positive reinforcement. To maintain
the upper hand, the victimizer manipulates the behavior of the victim and limits the victim’s options
so as to perpetuate the power imbalance. Skinner defined new functional relationships such as
“mands” and “tacts” to capture some essentials of language, but he introduced no new principles,
treating verbal behavior like any other behavior controlled by its consequences, which included the
reactions of the speaker’s audience. The practice has been tied to the same methods that slot
machines and other gambling devices dole out rewards, as it follows a variable rate schedule. Finally,
staff need to be trained to award the tokens consistently and fairly. However, Operant Conditioning
explains how behaviours are learned by their consequences and better explains more deliberate,
voluntary behaviours. Operant conditioning relies on a fairly simple premise: Source: cdn.kastatic.org
An introduction to operant (instrumental) conditioning. The answer to this question is like Darwin’s
answer to the question of the origin of a “new” bodily structure, namely, variation and selection. Two
crucial time intervals determine the rate of avoidance learning. For example, a pigeon might be fed
for pecking at a red light and not at a green light; in consequence, it pecks at red and stops pecking
at green. Thus, in avoidance, the consequence of a response is a reduction in the rate of aversive
stimulation. This is why systematic desensitisation uses Classical AND Operant Conditioning. In
operant conditioning, organisms learn to associate a behavior and its consequence (table 6.1).
Learning in the operant conditioning procedure can be explained by the law of effect (also proposed
by thorndike, in 1911), which suggests that responses are learned when they are followed by a.
Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their
consequences. However, when the organism’s blood sugar reaches or exceeds an optimum level the
taste of sugar becomes less effective, perhaps even aversive.
It uses the basic concepts of conditioning theory, including conditioned stimulus (SC), discriminative
stimulus (Sd), response (R), and reinforcing stimulus (Srein or Sr for reinforcers, sometimes Save for
aversive stimuli). A study of patients with Parkinson’s disease, a condition attributed to the
insufficient action of dopamine, further illustrates the role of dopamine in positive reinforcement.
They involve rewarding (and perhaps punishing) people by awarding or deducting tokens. Many
rules are possible, but the following are the most basic and commonly used. Check out kaplan's ap
psychology: In discussing operant conditioning, we use several everyday words—positive, negative,
reinforcement, and punishment—in a specialized manner. In the Skinner box experiment, the
aversive stimulus might be a loud noise continuously sounding inside the box; negative reinforcement
would happen when the rat presses a lever, turning off the noise. Skinner used a device called the
skinner box to study operant conditioning. The brain’s reward system assigns it incentive salience
(i.e., it is “wanted” or “desired”), so as an addiction develops, deprivation of the drug leads to
craving. While behaviorism may have lost much of the dominance it held during the early part of the
20th-century, operant conditioning remains an important and often utilized tool in the learning and
behavior modification process. Answer to operant conditioning worksheet instructions: Classical and
operant conditioning compared. The rats, at first, pressed the lever by accident, but soon learned to
press it to stop the electric current. Answer key is included as well.By purchasing this file, you agree
not to distribute it to other non-students. The prison service has recommended using token economy
programmes (TEP) as a technique to control behaviour. For example, sight of candy may cause a
child to salivate, or the sound of a door slam may signal an angry parent, causing a child to tremble.
Further, animals that have learned to avoid often show little evidence of fear, suggesting that escape
from fear is not necessary to maintain avoidance behavior. It makes the workers to perform better, so
that, they can continuously get those incentives and bonus. Skinner carried out hundreds of
experiments and published widely; a 2002 survey showed him to be the most influential psychologist
of the 20th century. Give some factors that would affect an individual's ability to learn. Your action
led to the removal of the unpleasant condition the child screaming, negatively reinforcing your
behavior. This usually happens without being planned by any “teacher”, but operant conditioning has
been used by parents in teaching their children for thousands of years. Each slide has transitions
along with rich, moving media. However, such posters are no longer used because of the effects of
incentive salience in causing relapse upon sight of the stimuli illustrated in the posters. Praise has
also been demonstrated to reinforce positive behaviors in non-praised adjacent individuals (such as a
classmate of the praise recipient) through vicarious reinforcement. These records were the primary
data that Skinner and his colleagues used to explore the effects on response rate of various
reinforcement schedules. The strategic use of praise is recognized as an evidence-based practice in
both classroom management and parenting training interventions, though praise is often subsumed in
intervention research into a larger category of positive reinforcement, which includes strategies such
as strategic attention and behavioral rewards. Then, the lesson sets up four different stations for
students to explore the details of Operant Conditioning: a graphic organizer to differentiate between
positive and negative reinforcement and punishment; a shaping activity; a foldable to learn about the
schedules of reinforcement; and a forced choices discussion about primary and secondary
reinforcers. Answer to operant conditioning worksheet instructions: If they answered incorrectly,
they. They are used in a clinical setting to help people overcome addictions or resist antisocial
behaviour. If someone has a phobia of spiders, you might reward them at first for looking at pictures
of spiders, then at a spider in the same room but far away, and eventually for handling a spider. This
project is always a highlight of my class; students enjoy coming up with their own applications of the
principles we discuss, and I have had some creative submissions over the years.
Strikingly, pigeons and rats persist in this behavior even when pecking the key or pressing the lever
leads to less food (omission training). Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished,
resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence “Operant” is used because the subject
operates on (causes) some change in the environment. SLT explains a child learning to talk by
watching and imitating adults, whereas Operant Conditioning suggests the child needs to have each
word or phrase rewarded with praise or attention; SLT seems more realistic, because children learn to
speak quickly and their parents don’t pay attention to everything they say. How would you
classically condition an adventuresome 2 year old to be more fearful of running across a busy street
near her house. While CC is useful for explaining learned behaviour, there are many other learned
behaviours that CC cannot explain, such as behaviours that are voluntary. Operant conditioning is a
learning process whereby deliberate behaviors are reinforced through consequences. These
worksheets are included in The Psychology of Smartphones presentation. In economics, the degree
to which price influences consumption is called “the price elasticity of demand.” Certain
commodities are more elastic than others; for example, a change in price of certain foods may have a
large effect on the amount bought, while gasoline and other essentials may be less affected by price
changes. A method of learning that occurs through reinforcements. In other words: breaking down
behavior into small steps. Russian Physiologist Pavlov was studying about the digestion of dogs
when he discovered Classical Conditioning. Here, money and license are removed as his pleasant
affair. Learning notes for key ap psychology takeaways and definitions. The opposite effect will
occur if the individual becomes deprived of that stimulus: the effectiveness of a consequence will
then increase. Another invention, the cumulative recorder, produced a graphical record from which
these response rates could be estimated. Believed that learning is a function of change in overt
behavior, and that behavior could be shaped gradually. They are used in a clinical setting to help
people overcome addictions or resist antisocial behaviour. Either may be positive or negative, as
described below. Operant Voluntary Behavior Extinction Spontaneous Recovery Generalization
Discrimination. A skinner box is a cage set up so that an animal can automatically get a food reward
if it makes a. To achieve a desired behavior, step-by-step trials are. This is time between successive
shocks in the absence of a response. There are twenty-five problems in total, and they are all unique
real-world examples of how operant conditioning works. There are twenty-five problems in total, and
they are all unique real-world examples of how operant conditioning works. So here is another one
involves the presentation presentation of stimuli um simultaneously simultaneously. For example, a
record of weight loss may act as negative reinforcement if it reminds the individual how heavy they
actually are. Avoidance behavior raises the so-called “avoidance paradox”, for, it may be asked, how
can the non-occurrence of a stimulus serve as a reinforcer. A study of patients with Parkinson’s
disease, a condition attributed to the insufficient action of dopamine, further illustrates the role of
dopamine in positive reinforcement. It is also a procedure that is used to bring about such learning.
Operant conditioning examples reveal how reinforcement of behavior can work in psychology.
Operant conditioning is a learning process whereby deliberate behaviors are reinforced through
consequences. This idea of shaping also appears in systematic desensitisation. The type of
conditioning observed in this case would be operant conditioning, because behavior is being
modified in response to reinforcements. Even if Federer has got nothing to do with the brand he
endorses, we develop the same positive association with the brand like how we develop the same
with Federed himself. The notion of classical conditioning normally transacts with instinctive or
reflexive responses which include emotional or physiological responses. These records were the
primary data that Skinner and his colleagues used to explore the effects on response rate of various
reinforcement schedules. It’s how a dog learns to sit on command It’s how you learned to drive a
car It’s how you learned to make friends. An example might be the audience applauding a performer
or cheering an athlete. Conclusion Operant Conditioning explains a lot of voluntary behaviour and it
has led to therapies like Token Economy Programmes that have helped people with addictions.
Another invention, the cumulative recorder, produced a graphical record from which these response
rates could be estimated. A reinforcement schedule may be defined as “any procedure that delivers
reinforcement to an organism according to some well-defined rule”. So, to avoid nagging, the child
might end up following the rules strictly. The type of conditioning observed in this case would be
operant conditioning, because behavior is being modified in response to reinforcements. Differences
Operant Conditioning has many similarities with Classical Conditioning. Behaviors learned in one
context may be absent, or altered, in another. An example is the analysis of consumer demand, as
indexed by the amount of a commodity that is purchased. Similarly, army personnel also have to
follow the strict routine to avoid disciplinary actions against them; it shapes them into a disciplined
individual. There are twenty-five problems in total, and they are all unique real-world examples of
how operant conditioning works. Answer to operant conditioning worksheet instructions: If they
answered incorrectly, they. Irrespective of whether he brought food with him or not, the dogs used
to salivate as soon as Pavlov entered the room. Similarly the teacher may encourage extra play time
if the kid remains silent and well behaved. The form of learning where a response increases in
frequency as a result of it being followed by a reinforcement. Such trials are called “avoidance
trials.” This experiment is said to involve classical conditioning, because a neutral CS is paired with
an aversive US; this idea underlies the two-factor theory of avoidance learning described below.
Dogs automatically salivate when food arrives in their mouths, but after being in the experimental
situation for a while, they would salivate in anticipation of the food arriving, as if they had learned
to recognise the signs that the food was on its way. Many complex combinations of stimuli and other
conditions have been studied; for example an organism might be reinforced on an interval schedule
in the presence of one stimulus and on a ratio schedule in the presence of another. Describe
reinforcement schedules. Warm Up. What is learning. Such stimuli are called “discriminative
stimuli.” A so-called “three-term contingency” is the result. At regular intervals every 15 seconds, a
food dispenser would swing into the cage for 5 seconds then swing out again. However, such posters
are no longer used because of the effects of incentive salience in causing relapse upon sight of the
stimuli illustrated in the posters. It depends on operant variability and reinforcement, as described
above.
Skinner defined new functional relationships such as “mands” and “tacts” to capture some essentials
of language, but he introduced no new principles, treating verbal behavior like any other behavior
controlled by its consequences, which included the reactions of the speaker’s audience. This
specifies the time by which an operant response delays the onset of the next shock. The strategic use
of praise is recognized as an evidence-based practice in both classroom management and parenting
training interventions, though praise is often subsumed in intervention research into a larger category
of positive reinforcement, which includes strategies such as strategic attention and behavioral
rewards. Another invention, the cumulative recorder, produced a graphical record from which these
response rates could be estimated. Learn vocabulary, terms and more with flashcards, games and
other study tools. In short, some consequences strengthen behavior and some consequences weaken
behavior. The cat was able to escape and eat some food once it opened the door using a latch.
Classical v. Operant. They both use acquisition, discrimination, SR, generalization and extinction.
Strikingly, pigeons and rats persist in this behavior even when pecking the key or pressing the lever
leads to less food (omission training). Humans and animals engage in a sort of “cost-benefit”
analysis. In 1957, Skinner published Verbal Behavior, which extended the principles of operant
conditioning to language, a form of human behavior that had previously been analyzed quite
differently by linguists and others. Similarly, rats begin to handle small objects, such as a lever,
when food is presented nearby. Shaping involves changing the reinforcement to produce very precise
behaviours. Skinner used a device called the skinner box to study operant conditioning. Applications
Operant Conditioning has always had huge applications for therapy, especially the treatment of more
deliberate problems like addictions and crime. There are twenty-five problems in total, and they are
all unique real-world examples of how operant conditioning works. TEPs are often used in schools
(“House Points”) but are also successful in prisons and workplaces. Classical Conditioning Operant
Conditioning Project. Let’s have some relevant examples for Negative reinforcements. Subsequently
the dogs used to salivate whenever they heard the sound of the bell even before they had their sight
on the food. If someone is not hungry, food will not be an effective reinforcer for behavior. Classical
v. Operant. They both use acquisition, discrimination, SR, generalization and extinction. The answer
to this question is like Darwin’s answer to the question of the origin of a “new” bodily structure,
namely, variation and selection. Operant conditioning relies on a fairly simple premise: Source:
cdn.kastatic.org An introduction to operant (instrumental) conditioning. Classify the following as
classical conditioning, operant conditioning, insight learning, or habituation: To do this, move the
examples on the left into the appropriately labeled box on the right. Source: doubtnut-static.s3.ap-
south-1.amazonaws.com Operant conditioning is a learning process whereby deliberate behaviors
are reinforced through consequences. Source: i.pinimg.com This activity describes a form of learning
called operant conditioning. First described by us psychologist edward thorndyke, operant
conditioning focuses on voluntary behaviors. Your action led to the removal of the unpleasant
condition the child screaming, negatively reinforcing your behavior. Operant conditioning is one of
the fundamental concepts in behavioral psychology. Tension and anxiety are the stimuli that trigger
her need or want for a cigarette, once she finally smokes those feelings are removed.

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