PART ONE DIRECTIONS

STEP ONE: For Part One. . . indicate if the example is a form of OPERANT or CLASSICALconditioning.It can only be one or the other. Classical conditioning involves learning an automatic response and Operant conditioning involves learning a voluntary response. If you do not write classical or operant, you lose 5 pts from the assignment.

STEP TWO: Practice completing classical conditioning questions by reading Lesson 7D and watching the video lecture on classical conditioning. Answers not written as I demonstrated in the video lecture will earn zero points, so be sure to watch the video and practice with the video.

CLASSICAL:For those answers that are classical conditioning, indicate the NS, UCS, UCR, CS, and CR in that order

STEP THREE: Practice completing Operant Conditioning by reading Lesson 7E and watching the video lecture on operant conditioning and watching the video lecture on operant conditioning.

OPERANT:For those that are operant conditioning, indicate the type of operant conditioning: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, or negative punishment (it can only be one of the four).

The possible schedules are FIXED RATIO, VARIABLE RATIO, FIXED INTERVAL, or VARIABLE INTERVAL. To be a "full schedule" the number (if possible) and units (for interval schedules only, i.e., 1 week) must be included.

PART ONE

1. Your parents set a curfew of 10:00 PM for you when you are in 10th grade. All that year, you always come home on time and never get into trouble while out with your friends. So, the next year your parents give you a new car.

2. Every time you went to the local city baseball games, your Dad bought you popcorn. The popcorn smell makes your mouth water naturally (increases salivation). Now, whenever you go to a baseball game, your mouth waters.

3. Jaun got food poisoning after eating Vietnamese food at a local restaurant. Now, just the thought of the restaurant makes him feel sick.

4. Ansa and Konah are playing in the pool when Ansa decides to push Konah's head under the water. Ansa laughs but Konah is not happy and gets out of the water and goes home. Ansa is upset that his friend left and never pushes his friend's head under the water again.

5. One reason that people become addicted to cocaine is the fact that when they stop using it they feel the opposite of the good feelings that occur when they are on the drug (agitation, restlessness, depressed mood, fatigue, vivid and unpleasant dreams). The only way to make a bad feeling go away is to take more of the drug.

6. Andria's new puppy likes to jump on people when he gets excited. To teach the puppy not to jump on people, every time the puppy jumps on her, she turns her back to the puppy to ignore him. After a while, the puppy learns not to jump on people.

7. Nhia has been going out with his friends to happy hours for cheap drinks and food. He always drinks too much alcohol and then drives back to campus. After a number of times driving drunk, Nhia finally gets stopped by police and arrested for driving under the influence. The consequence is that he loses his license.

8. Last year, a dentist hit a nerve while drilling on David's tooth. The pain was so great that he yelled out and almost jumped out of his chair. The next time he went to the dentist, he felt anxious and could not relax.

9.A college professor has a policy of not making students take the final exam if they maintain perfect attendance for the entire semester. His students' attendance increases dramatically.

10.In order to have enough money for textbooks this spring, Valentina decided she had to go two weeks without buying anything over winter break. She was successful and used this technique in the future to save money.

11.It gets very hot in Jamaica during the day. While on vacation, an islander tells you that you would feel cooler if you wet down the arms and back of your shirt. It works and you feel relief enough to enjoy your vacation. Next time you go to a hot climate, you use the same technique.

PART TWO

DIRECTIONS: The questions below need one or two-word answers. See the terms in the box below for possible answers.

Reminders:

1) The 3 types of learning: classical, operant and observational (social).

2) The terms from classical conditioning: generalization, discrimination, extinction, spontaneous recovery, taste aversion and systematic desensitization.

3) The terms from operant conditioning: generalization, discrimination, extinction, spontaneous recovery and shaping. 4) Schedules of reinforcement: fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval.

12.Five-year-old Sam is emotionally disturbed and has refused to communicate with anyone. To get him tospeak, his teacher initially gives him candy for any utterance, then only for a clearly spoken word, andfinally only for a complete sentence. The teacher has used the operant conditioning term called: (Hint: Not positive reinforcement or continuous schedule, although both are used in this operant technique.)

13. A rabbit (Muffy) is being taught to run an obstacle course. She figured out that instead of jumping an obstacle, she could move it aside with her head. The next day, she is being taught to run a different course, but she keeps moving the obstacles out of the way with her head. This is an example of what operant term?

14. Dad wants to understand how to stop his son's behavior of begging for candy at the checkout counter. The psychologist teaches him that to stop of behavior, he needs to stop rewarding the behavior. So, Dad takes his son shopping a few times a week and never gives the boy candy. After many weeks, the child finally gives up and stops begging for candy. What operant term is used to describe situations like this where the child no longer begs at the checkout? (Hint: There is no punishment occurring in this situation.)

15. Related to the question before this one... after a week away at camp, the Dad takes his son shopping, and he begs at the checkout counter again. What operant term is used to describe what has happened to the son's behavior?

16. A young child watches his older brother get in trouble for leaving the yard without permission, so he does not leave the yard without permission to avoid punishment. A) The young child is demonstrating what type of learning?

B) Who is famous for studying this type of learning?

17. My dog Bugsy does not come running when I open the cans of cat food, but when I open the bag with her food, she tears into the kitchen. Bugsy is demonstrating which term from classical conditioning?

18. Tanya planted a beautiful garden with many flower bulbs and kept it weeded and watered. One day she went out to check the garden and found rabbits eating all of her bulbs and flowers. Tanya has a sensitive heart and could not bring herself to kill the rabbits. She decided to use a technique she learned about in general psychology class. She got a hold of a chemical that makes rabbits nauseous, but with no long-term negative effects. She sprinkled it on her remaining plants. Within a week, no rabbits were eating her flowers or bulbs. What term from classical conditioning did these rabbits experience?

19. Joe is training his dog to sit up and rollover. He wants to use a different schedule of reinforcement for eachbehavior. He wants to use the one with the fastest rate of responding (most behavior is the shortest amount of time), which is the A)________________________ schedule;and then the one that provides the greatest resistance to extinction (hardest to extinguish), which is the B) _______________________ schedule. (I give you this answer in the video lecture on schedules. And, these will be questions on the exam, so you need to understand this.)

20. To stop being afraid of heights, Clay starts on the fifth floor of a tall building and practiced his breathing until he is no longer feeling afraid on that floor. He moved up to the 10^th floor and again practices his breathing until he feels relaxed. Eventually, he is able to relax on the top floor of the building. What is this classical conditioning term/technique called?