When an operant response stops occurring because it is no longer reinforced, which of the following has taken place?

Related Mcqs:

1. Santa Claus stops by your house to drop off presents and is feeling very hungry. He sees two cookies on the mantle and quickly devours them. Afterward, he no longer feels a need to eat. What theory of motivation best describes this situation?

   A. Instinct
   B. Evolutionary
   C. Drive reduction
   D. Incentive

2. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

3. Any process that increases the likelihood that a particular operant response will occur again is called ________________?

   A. reinforcement
   B. punishment
   C. discrimination
   D. chaining

4. In operant conditioning, what is the relationship between events critical to learning and the response to be learned?

   A. They occur before the response
   B. They occur after the response
   C. They occur simultaneously with the response
   D. they are unrelated to the response

5. This does not increase the probability of a particular response occurring _________________?

   A. positive reinforcement
   B. negative reinforcement
   C. shaping
   D. punishment

6. By definition_______always reduces the probability of a response occurring again.

   A. Positive reinforcement
   B. Punishment
   C. Negative reinforcement
   D. Observation

7. The basic understanding of the relationship between unconditioned response (UR) and conditioned response (CR) includes which of the following ideas?

   A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
   B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
   C. Stimulus situation
   D. The UR and CR are always the same response
   E. (a), (b) and (c)

8. Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.

   A. acquisition
   B. development
   C. performance
   D. generalization

9. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

10. Which of the following reinforcement schedules in operant conditioning would be best to use if you want to produce behavior that is very resistant to extinction?

    A. continuous
    B. fixed ratio
    C. variable ratio
    D. fixed interval