AIM: to Practice Discriminating the Main Types of OPERANT CONDITIONING

PMHS Name______AP PSYCHOLOGY

AIM: To practice discriminating the main types of OPERANT CONDITIONING.

Punishment Positive punishment- WEAKENS the likelihood of a behavior occurring Negative punishment or omission-

STRENGTHEN Positive reinforcement- S the likelihood of a behavior occurring Negative reinforcement-

(A)Underline the behavior. (B) Determine if that behavior is likely to INCREASE or DECREASE. (C) Determine if a consequence is added or removed after the behavior is performed. (D)Write the OPERANT principle.

Increase Adding Principle? Scenario (reinforce) or (pos) or decrease taking (punish) away (neg) frequency of stimulus? behavior? 1. Taking asprin to relieve headache.

2. Giving into a dog’s begging and whining and providing a warm hug.

3. Leaving a movie theatre if the movie is bad.

4. Faking a stomach ache to AVOID school.

5. Putting on a seatbelt to AVOID the irritating “DING-DING- DING-DING-DING-DING-DING-DING-DING-DING”

6. Student studies for midterm because they want to get a good grade.

7. A teakettle whistles to indicate the water is boiling hot. A grandmother takes the teakettle off the heat to have her morning cup of tea.

8. A student swears in class, so the teacher makes them put a quarter in a jar. Since this policy has been implemented, the swearing has slowed considerably. Try some examples without a chart. Again, you must first determine and underline the behavior. Then, determine if the behavior is strengthened or weakened. Then, determine if after the behavior is performed, there is an addition or subtraction of a stimulus. Watch out! Some of these are TRICKY!!! Make sure to follow the steps we have been taking all week.

PR: Positive Reinforcement NR: Negative Reinforcement PP: Positive Punishment NP: Negative Punishment

1. _____ A mother keeps nagging her son to take out the garbage, in order to stop the nagging, he finally completes the task.

2. _____ A child is well-mannered in the grocery store and gets to pick a treat at the checkout line.

3. _____ A teen misses her curfew and comes home over two hours late. She is given 10 hours of extra chores, but she still comes home late because she does not mind the extra cleaning!

4. _____ A teen got a haircut in a new style and was unsure if he was happy about the cut. A number of girls complimented him on the new look.

5. _____ A student completes their AP Psychology reading to prevent a bad score on pop-quizzes.

6. _____A teacher gives a student a high-five for beginning their project quickly; however, the student feels embarrassed by the gesture and stops working on the project. The project remains incomplete.

7. _____A teacher yells at a student when she calls out. The student liked the attention she got in front of the whole class, so she kept calling out.

8. _____A teacher gives a detention to a student when they call out. The student stops calling out.

9. _____A parent threatens to take away allowance if the laundry is not complete. The teen finally does the laundry, so he/she can prevent losing their allowance.

10. _____A parent takes away a teen’s cell phone because they lack effort in all of their classes. The teen does not care and continues to be lazy.

11. _____A teen turns their cell phone to “vibrate,” so their phone does not get taken by a teacher when a text is received.

12. _____A woman finds that Yoga relieves stress, so she practices Yoga everyday.

13. _____A man forgot to turn the lights off in his car: A buzzer goes off as he opens the door, so he turns the lights off to make the buzzing stop.

14. _____If a teen brings home bad grades, his parents take away his cell phone for a week. This happened once and since then, the teen has not had any bad grades.

15. _____A girl loves to tease her younger brother. He gets very angry and she thinks it’s funny, so she continues to tease him.