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GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

REINFORCEMENT AND PUNISHMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This summer you get a great job at Seaworld. After working there a few months, you get promoted from Shamoo’s personal assistant to dolphin feeder. Your job is to feed Flipper and all his friends. One day Flipper gets aggressive and won’t let other dolphins eat. You, being the authoritarian that you are, take the fishy treats and walk away. Flipper cried a little, but you still walked away
A
Positive Reinforcement
B
Negative Reinforcement
C
Positive Punishment
D
Negative Punishment
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In response to cutting up an onion, airborne irritants released by the onion will cause your eyes to automatically water or produce tears. Using Pavlov’s terminology, the tears would be termed a(n): unconditioned response (UCR).

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: In operant conditioning, “negative” and “positive” refer to whether an unpleasant stimulus is taken away or a pleasant stimulus is added, respectively. “Reinforcement” increases the likelihood a behavior will occur, while “punishment” decreases the likelihood a behavior will occur.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operant conditioning (also known as instrumental conditioning) is a process by which humans and animals learn to behave in such a way as to obtain rewards and avoid punishments. It is also the name for the paradigm in experimental psychology by which such learning and action selection processes are studied.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Little Albert experiment demonstrated that classical conditioning (the association of a particular stimulus or behavior with an unrelated stimulus or behavior) works in human beings.

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