Who wrote The Law of Effect about how behaviors will change based on if result is favorable/unfavorable

a. B.F. Skinner

b. Edward Thorndike

c. Ivan Pavlov 

Which psychologist did the famous puzzle box involving a cat?

a. B.F. Skinner

b. Edward Thorndike

c. Ivan Pavlov 

Developed the fundamental principles and techniques of operant conditioning and devised ways to apply to real world

a. Edward Thorndike

b. Ivan Pavlov

c. B.F. Skinner

Which psychologist did the operant conditioning experiment with a rat and food?

a. Thorndike

b. Pavlov

c. Skinner

any consequence that increases the likelhood of a behavior

a. reward

b. reinforcement

c. positive reinforcement 

consequence that decreases likelihood of behavior 

a. negative reinforcement

b. punishment

c. fixed ratio 

increasing the likelihood of behavior by giving something desireable 

a. reward

b. positive reinforcement

c. negative reinforcement

increasing likelihood of behavior by removing the undesired event/state

a. punishment

b. positive reinforcement

c. negative reinforcement

reinforcement that is naturally reinforcing (food, warmth, water)

a. positive

b. primary

c. secondary

reinforcement have to learn to value (money; coupon)

a. positive 

b. primary

c. secondary 

reinforcement of behavior that are increasingly similar to the desired one; used to establish new behavior

a. positive reinforcement

b. discrimination

c. shaping

ability to tell different between two similar stimuli

a. discrimination

b. extinction

c. shaping

the loss of a behavior when no consequence follows it

a. discrimination

b. extinction

c. shaping

schedule of reinforcement in which reward follows EVERY correct response

a. partial

b. continuous

c. fixed

a reward follows only SOME correct responses

a. continuous

b. partial

c. ratio

partial reinforcement schedule: rewards only first correct response after some defined PERIOD OF TIME

a. fixed-ratio

b. variable-interval

c. fixed-interval 

partial reinforcement: reward the first correct response after an UNPREDICTABLE amount of TIME

a. fixed-ratio

b. variable-interval

c. fixed-interval 

partial reinforcement: rewards a response only after some defined NUMBER of REWARDS

a. fixed-ratio

b. fixed-interval

c. variable-interval 

partial reinforcement: rewards an UNPREDICTABLE  NUMBER of correct responses

a. fixed-ratio

b. variable-ratio

c. variable-interval 

learning that occurs but is not apparent until the learner has an incentive to demonstrate it

a. extinction

b. latent learning

c. late learning 

a mental representation of a place

a. cognition

b. cognitive map

c. cognitive GPS

effect of promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do

a. overindulgence effect

b. overjustification effect

c. overrewarding effect