INSTRUCTIONS: Assign the correct operant conditioning contingency to each of the
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INSTRUCTIONS: Assign the correct operant conditioning contingency to each of the examples below. Use the methods discussed in you lecture on the four contingencies, to select the behavior being modified, the consequence of that behavior, and which of the four main operant conditioning contingencies best describes what learning process is being demonstrated. 1. Melvin went with his parents to the grocery store. He asks for a new chess set, and his parents place it in their buggy. As soon as this happens, Melvin suddenly wants to go home. He can't stand being in the store anymore, so he yanks on his mother's sweater and starts crying to go home. She says "No, you'll have to wait," and Melvin says a dirty word in reply. His mother takes the chess set out of the buggy and puts it back along the rack. Behavior: Consequence: Contingency: 2. Adam didn't have enough time to study for the exam. exam, and he comes up with a solution: he can go to the med clinic, pretend to have a cough and the sniffles. His doctors write him up an excuse, and he gives it to his instructor. He's successfully able to reschedule the exam three days later, allowing himself plenty of time to study in the interim. He tries to think of a way to avoid taking the Behavior: Consequence: Contingency: 3. Jess has a friend who likes to gossip. He likes to talk about all the juicy secrets that their friends share, but this makes Ashley very uncomfortable. She decides that she's going to try to reduce his gossiping behavior. Now, every time he decides to start talking about their friends' personal business, she doesn't pretend to be interested. She doesn't stop talking to him completely, but she doesn't give him the attention that she used to whenever he brought things like this up. Behavior: Consequence: Contingency:Explanation / Answer
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The operant condition is the learning process that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior. Skinner classified behavior into two types namely: Respondent behavior and Operant behavior.
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Behavior: Operant behavior. Melvin’s action was under conscious control and he used a bad word purposely as a reply to his mother.
Consequence: Negative punishment. As Melvin used a dirty word, his mother takes away the chess set out of the buggy due to his undesired behavior, so that his behavior of Melvin reduces and he would not repeat such behavior again.
Contingency: Operant response. After taking away the chess set from the buggy as a punishment, Melvin tends not to repeat this behavior else he would be punished again.
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Behavior: Operant behavior. Adam has cheated and lied that he is sick so that he can escape the exam.
Consequence: Continuous reinforcement. Adam gets habituated to lying and cheating if this behavior is not identified. He would repeat the same behavior to escape whenever he has an exam.
Contingency: Reinforcement schedules. Adam would repeat the same behavior to escape whenever he has an exam.
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Behavior: Respondent behavior. Ashley decided to act that she is not interested to listen to the gossips which she is doing purposely to reduce the gossiping behavior.
Consequence: Positive punishment. As Ashley is not talking to her friend when he gossips, this makes him realize that this behavior can make him lose Ashley as a friend and he would try to reduce gossiping.
Contingency: Positive reinforcement.
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