Community Education

A 2nd grade teacher implements a rule for some troublemakers in the class: students will lose 1 minute of recess every time he or she breaks a classroom rule. Eventually, the students stop breaking the classroom rules. This is an example of

• negative punishment.

• positive punishment.

• positive reinforcement.

• negative reinforcement.

Who taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell?

• John B. Watson
• B.F. Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• Edward L. Thorndike

What does it mean by positive reinforcement ?

• Reward

• Punishment

• Dessert

• Reward and punishment

Teacher Nurin praises her students with encouraging words such as "Good job!" and gives her students stickers as rewards. What kind of reinforcement has been applied in her classroom?

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

Who is the behaviorist that introduce classical conditioning?

• Jean Piaget

• F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Erik Erikson

IN CLASSICAL CONDITIONING, A STIMULUS THAT ELICITS NO RESPONSE BEFORE CONDITIONING

• ACQUISITION

• EXTINCTION

• NEUTRAL STIMULS

• SHAPING

Positive reinforcement...

• makes someone more likely to repeat an action in the future

• hinders someone from repeating an action in the future

• strenghtens a behaviour

• eliminates a response

In operant conditioning, behaviors are shaped by

• triggers

• signals

• consequences

• sounds

What is classical conditioning?

• Learning caused by pairing and association of two stimuli
• Learning by responding to environmental stimuli
• Learning explained by its consequences
• Learning explained by modelling 

Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• The cat food
• The sound of the electric can opener
• The cat coming to the kitchen
• Tamara