ANSWER KEY

1. Schedules of reinforcement
2. Continuous reinforcement
3. Intermittent reinforcement
4. Fixed ratio
5. Variable ratio
6. Fixed interval
7. Variable interval
8. Avoidance behavior
9. Control by others
10.
Control by self
11.
Automatization
12.
Self-regulation
13.
Positive reinforce
14.
Negative reinforce
15.
Aversive stimulus
16.
Reinforcer
17.
Reinforcement
18.
Direct observation
19.
Reinforce
20.
Consequence
21.
Punishment
22.
Desirable
23.
Undesirable
24.
B.F. Skinner
25.
Positive consequences
26.
Negative consequences
27.
Operant behaviour
28.
Reinforcers
29.
Positive reinforcers
30.
Negative reinforcers
31.
Premack Principle
32.
Satiation
33.
- 37. Any of the
following:
Reinforcement must be
consistently delivered,

according to a planned
reinforcement schedule
Reinforcement must be
delivered immediately
Improvement should be
reinforced
Do not give
reinforcement because
you feel sorry for a
student
Whenever possible,
pair any reinforcement
with social
reinforcement.
Make sure that social
reinforcers are not
ambiguous
Reinforcement should
be age-appropriate
38.
Primary
39.
Secondary
40.
Consummatory
response
41.
Consummatory act
42.
Wallace Craig
43.
Consummatory
response theory
44.
Sheffield
45.
Consummatory
response
46.
Extinction
47.
Extinction burst
48.
Negatively reinforced
49.
Positively reinforced
50.
Positive reinforcement

QUESTIONS
1. Rules that state the relationship between a certain behaviour and its
consequences, defined in terms of duration or time or number of responses
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

required to present a reinforce

Every occurrence of an operant response is reinforced.
The target behaviour is only reinforced on some occasions.
A reinforcer is delivered after a fixed number of responses.
A reinforcer is delivered after a number of responses, varying around an average.
A reinforcer is delivered after a fixed length of time.
A reinforcer is delivered after a length of time, varying around an average.
A pervasive pattern of avoiding or withdrawing from social interaction; a defense
mechanism by which a person removes himself/herself from unpleasant
situations. .

9-11. All behaviors, as it develops, passes through what 3 sequences.

12. A stage of development that lies between the point where assistance is required
from other people and the point where it becomes automatic and no further
regulation is needed.
13. It is a consequence that maintains and strengthens behavior by its added
stimulus.
14. A consequence that strengthens behavior by a removal of aversive stimulus.
15. It is an avoided stimulus after the behavior.
16. A Behavior strengthen by a consequence.
17. It is the occurrence of particular behaviour.
18. Also known as observational study.
19. It is a consequence that strengthens the operant behavior.
20. It is an event that follows immediately after the target behaviour.
21. It is a type of consequence which decrease behaviour they follow.
22-23. Consequences can be ___ & ___.
24. The one who proposed the operant conditioning as relatable to reinforcement.
25. It is the result of having desirable acts.
26. It is the result of having undesirable acts.
27. It is an act on the environment to produce an consequence and, in turn, is
controlled by, or occurs again in the future as a result of, its immediate
consequence.

28. The responses from the environment that increase the probability of a behavior
being repeated.
29-30. Two different types of reinforcement.
31. It states that preferred behaviors can be used to reinforce unpreferred behaviors.
32. It is the term used to describe the situation of a reinforcer losing its effectiveness.
33-37. Give at least 5 ways on how reinforcement should be delivered.
38-39. Two categories of reinforcement
40. The response that removes the drive.
41. Another term for consummatory response.
42. An American euthologist that proposed Consummatory response.
43. The satisfying state of affairs which accompanies the achievement of a goal by
the successful completion of a series of acts.
44. Defined consummatory response as the response which removes the drive.
45. Examples of this are behaviors involved with eating or swallowing food.
46. When you remove something in order to decrease a behavior, this is called?
47. It can be defined as a temporary increase in the frequency, duration, or
magnitude of the target response?
48. When a _________ __________ behavior is put on extinction the thing the
person wants to get away from continues to remain present after the behavior.
49. When a __________ ___________ behavior is put on extinction the thing the
person obtains from engaging in that behavior is no longer given to them.
50. Giving it what it wants is a type of what reinforcement?