Skinner's Behaviourism Principle

Behaviourism is measured on external behaviour, as opposed to internal like thinking and emotion.

• True

• False

True or false?

Skinner says that a child would never be able to progress from babbling to using proper language if the parents does not shape the child's language behaviour.

• True

• False

Behavior: Afrina smiles at everyone

Consequence: She makes a lot of friends

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

A primary school teacher uses snakes and ladder reward chart. Students will go up the ladder if they are well behaved and down the snake if they are badly behaved. Which reinforcement is this?

• Negative reinforcement

• Both of the above

• Positive reinforcement

• None of the above

Positive punishment ________ behaviour, and negative punishment ________ behaviour.

• strengthens, strengthens

• strengthens, weakens

• weakens, weakens

• weakens, strengthens