Psychology 9-2 Quiz

a person's behavior that has the effect of preventing an unpleasant situation from happening

avoidance conditioning

a person's behavior that causes an unpleasant event to stop

escape conditioning

You have a job in a retail store at a mall. You are paid every Friday for the previous week's work. Your pay schedule is a

fixed-interval

examples of primary reinforcers for humans include

food, clothing, and rest periods

an event that increases the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated

reinforcement

money that people earn from their job

secondary reinforcer

a method used to train a dog to dance on its hind legs

shaping

a reinforcement schedule that results in consistently high productivity

variable-ratio schedule

Operant conditioning focuses on how reinforcement affects

voluntary behavior