12 Questions
What is the primary contribution of operant conditioning?
Therapeutic interventions for individuals with special needs, mental or emotional disabilities, and eating disorders
What is the primary goal of punishment in operant conditioning?
To decrease a response
What is the result of intermittent reinforcement?
A response becomes more resistant to extinction
What type of reinforcement is necessary for shaping and establishing a new response?
Continuous reinforcement
What is the primary reason why continuous reinforcement is an inefficient use of the reinforcer?
It increases the frequency of a response but is an inefficient use of the reinforcer
What is the primary characteristic of positive reinforcement?
Presentation of a rewarding stimulus
What is the term for the initial learning stage in Classical Conditioning, during which the CR comes to be elicited by the CS?
Acquisition
What is the term for the weakening of a CR in the absence of an US?
Extinction
According to Skinner's theory of personality, what happens to behaviors that are punished?
They decrease
What is the type of behavioral learning in which a neutral stimulus gains power to produce the same response previously elicited by another stimulus?
Classical Conditioning
What is the term for the reappearance of a CR without further conditioning?
Spontaneous Recovery
What is the process of changing behavior in which reinforcement (or punishment) is contingent on the occurrence of a particular behavior?
Operant Conditioning
Learn about classical conditioning, a type of behavioral learning where a neutral stimulus elicits a response. Understand the roles of unconditioned and conditioned stimuli and responses in this process.
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