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25. In operant conditioning, punishment makes a behavior future, while reinforcement makes the behavior likely to occure likely to ocur in the likely to occure in the future A. more; less B. less; more C. less; equally D. equally; less 26. Mandisa always picked up her infant daughter when she screamed because she couldn't have the toy she wanted. As a result, her daughter screams doesn't get her way. In this case, picking up the infant served as a(n) screaming A) negative reinforcer B) conditioned stimulus C) positive reinforcer D) unconditioned stimulus whenever sh for 27. In operant conditioning, learning an appropriate response by removing something pleasant is called: A. Positive reinforcement B. Negative Reinforcement C. Positive Punishment D. Negative Punishment 28. Your dog is barking so loudly that it's making your ears ring. You clap your hands, the dog stops barking, your ears can stop ringing, and you think to yourself, "I'll have to do that when he barks again". The end of the dog barking (unpleasant stimulus) was for you a: A. positive reinforcer B. negative reinforcer C. positive punishment D. negative punishment occurs when you add something unplcasant in order to make the target 29. behavior less likcly to occur in the future. A. Positive reinforcement B. Negative Reinforeement C. Positive Punishment D. Negative Punishment 30. Which of the following is NOT an example of a reason why psychological research suggests that the use of physical punishment on children is not effective? Punished behaviors may simply be suppressed, and restart when the punishment A. B. C. is over Children would learn better without using punishment at all, and only using Instead of behaviors, the child might learn an attitude of fear or hatred, which reward can interfere with learning and can generalize to a fear/hatred of all adults D. Physical punishment models aggression and control as a method of dealing with problems 31. Most psychologists think that the use of punishment is: A) ineffective in even temporarily restraining unwanted behavior. B) more effective than negative reinforcers in shaping behavior C) the opposite of positive reinforcers and thus is its psychological equivalent in terms of changing behavior P) less effective than positive reinforcers in promoting desirable behavior

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25. In Operant Conditioning Learning Process, the behavior is affected or controlled by its consequences.

Hence...In Operant Conditioning punishment makes a behavior more likely to occur in the future, while reinforcement makes the behavior less likely to appear in the future.

27. According to B.F.Skinner, In Negative Reinforcement, a behavior is strengthened by stopping, removing or avoiding a negative outcome. But Negative Punishment is the removal of a favorite thing to strengthen a particular behavior.

Hence...In Operant Conditioning, learning an appropriate response by removing something pleasant is called Negative punishment.

29. Negative Reinforcement is when you add something unpleasant in order to make the target behavior more unlikely to occur in the future.