LEARNING
OPERANT CONDITIONING
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Question
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The opportunity to escape a shock by pressing a lever
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Food
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Water
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Freedom
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of secondary reinforcers include: verbal praise, highly preferred activities, stickers, toys, and edibles. An example of pairing is saying to a toddler, “You did it!” and then the toddler gets a chance to play with a toy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Skinner box. To show how reinforcement works in a controlled environment, Skinner placed a hungry rat into a box that contained a lever. As the rat scurried around inside the box, it would accidentally press the lever, causing a food pellet to drop into the box.
Detailed explanation-3: -Operant conditioning occurs when a behavior (as opposed to a stimulus) is associated with the occurrence of a significant event. In the best-known example, a rat in a laboratory learns to press a lever in a cage (called a “Skinner box”) to receive food.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most human reinforcers in human behavior are secondary. These include money, good grades in school, tokens, stars and stickers and praise.