Module 10- Operant Conditioning

1. Module 10- Operant Conditioning • What is an Operant Response? (2 points) • What is Superstitious Behavior? (2 points) • What is shaping? (2 points) • How did B.F. Skinner discover operant conditioning? (1 point) • What is a primary reinforcer? (2 points) • What is a secondary reinforcer? (2 points) • What type of learning involves imitation and observation? • List the four processes of cognitive learning. (4 points)

2. Answers • A response that can be modified by its consequences • A behavior that increases in frequency because it is occurrence is accidentally paired w/ the delivery of a reinforcer. • A procedure in which a experimenter successively reinforcor behaviors that lead up to or approximate the desired behavior. • Skinner’s Box • A stimulus such as food, water, or sex, that is innately satisfying and requires no learning on the part of the subject to become pleasurable. • Stimulus that has acquired its reinforcing power through experience • Cognitive Learning • Attention- give thought, Memory- store information, Imitation- remember and recreate actions, Motivation- incentive for doing activity