Operant Conditioning Quiz

Law of Effect: Thorndike’s view that pleasant events stamp in responses, and unpleasant events stamp them out.

• Law of Effect

• Reinforce

to follow a response with a stimulus that increases the frequency of the response.

• Reinforce

• Operant Behavior

behavior that operates on, or manipulates the environment.

• Operant Behavior

• Positive Reinforce

a simple form of learning in which an organism learns to engage in behavior because it is reinforced.

• Operant Conditioning

• Operant Behavior

the same as an operant behavior.

• Operant

• Operant conditioning

a reinforcer that when presented increases the frequency of an operant.

Negative reinforcer: a reinforcer that when removed increases the frequency of an operant.

an unlearned reinforcer whose effectiveness is based on the biological make-up of the organism and not on learning.

• Primary reinforcer

• Secondary reinforcer

a stimulus that gains reinforcement value through association with established reinforcers.

• Secondary reinforcer

• Conditioned Reinforcer

in operant conditioning, a stimulus that indicates the reinforcement is available

• Discriminative stimulus

• Continuous Reinforcenent