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Module 10 Study Guide

This document is a study guide for an introductory psychology module covering operant and cognitive approaches to learning. It includes 20 multiple choice questions about key concepts in operant conditioning, including positive and negative reinforcement, punishment, shaping behavior, and applications of operant conditioning principles to behavior modification and treating autism. It also covers cognitive learning approaches, including Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory and the Bobo doll study.

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Module 10 Study Guide

This document is a study guide for an introductory psychology module covering operant and cognitive approaches to learning. It includes 20 multiple choice questions about key concepts in operant conditioning, including positive and negative reinforcement, punishment, shaping behavior, and applications of operant conditioning principles to behavior modification and treating autism. It also covers cognitive learning approaches, including Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory and the Bobo doll study.

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NAME:_______________________________________ Intro to Psych Module 10- Operant & Cognitive Approaches

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Introduction 1. What is operant conditioning, and how is it different from classical conditioning? (4 pts.)

2. Give an example of how you have been trained via operant conditioning in some way. (2 pts.)

3. What is cognitive learning, and what aspect does it lack that operant conditioning has? (4 pts.)

A. Operant Conditioning 4. Explain Thorndikes law of effect and show how it connects to operant conditioning. (4 pts)

5. What is operant response and why was it necessary to develop this concept? (4 pts.)

6. Explain how shaping is part of operant conditioning. (2 pts.)

7. Why is it important for behavior to be immediately reinforced? (2 pts)

8. List the four steps associated with operant conditioning. (4 pts.)

9. In operant conditioning , performance or behavior depends on a _______________________. In classical conditioning, the subject learns that there is a ______________________ between two stimuli. (2 pts.) B. Reinforcers 10. What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcers, and give examples of each, not using the ones in the text. (6 pts.)

11. Why are you so willing to work hard for grades, since they are secondary reinforcers? (2 pts.)

12. How can spanking be a positive punishment? What would be an example of a negative punishment and why is it considered one? (5 pts.)

E. Cognitive Learning 13. Why was Skinner against studying cognitive processes as a subfield of psychology? (2 pts.)

14. Who is Albert Bandura? Explain his theory of social cognitive learning. What are its four processes? (see p. 225) (8 pts.)

15. Why was the Bobo doll study important because of what it proved? How does this fall in line with Banduras thinking? (4 pts.)

16. What is the learning-performance distinction? (2 pts.)

G. Research Focus: Noncompliance 17. How was operant conditioning used to help Morgans parents handle her noncompliance? Specifically list what the consequences for her behavior were and whether they were positive or negative reinforcers or punishments. (6 pts.)

I. Application: Behavior Modification 18. What is behavior modification? (2 pts.)

19. What three aspects of operant conditioning are used to help treat children with autism? (3 pts.)

20. What is biofeedback and how is operant conditioning used as part of it? Does it use positive or negative reinforcement? (5 pts.)

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