Demonstrate and understanding of operant conditioning by differentiating between positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and punishment
What will be an ideal response?
Positive reinforcement involves giving a reward in order to increase the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring. Negative reinforcement involves taking away something unpleasant in order to increase the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring. Punishment is any consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring. It can involve giving something unwanted or taking away something wanted.
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A psychologist measures the IQs of 20 students who ingested a "smart pill" and 20 students who ingested a "sugar pill" in order to determine if the pill had an effect on intelligence. To ensure peak performance, she tests all of the students on Wednesdays. In this experiment, the dependent variable is the
a. day of the week. b. pill type. c. IQ score. d. sex of the researcher.
Vince is driving home in heavy traffic after a stressful day at work. A car comes up quickly behind him and the driver is yelling and gesturing for Vince to get out of his way. Angry, Vince hits the brakes and causes the other driver to swerve. Then Vince honks and makes a few obscene gestures at the driver. According to ____, Vince becomes aggressive because he is stressed and experiencing
unpleasant emotions and has received negative cues from his environment.? a. ?transferred excitation b. ?the arousal: cost-reward theory c. ?social interference d. ?the frustration-aggression hypothesis
When a researcher repeats an experiment using either identical or improved research methods, this is known as a(n) __________
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For a normally distributed set of scores with ?= 200 and ?= 20, what is the probability
of a score being equal to or greater than 200? a. .3413 b. .5000 c. .6826 d. .9544