SG-Ch 7 Learning.pdf - Edmond Public Schools
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6<br />
be acceptable in another. Punishment can also<br />
lead to<br />
and a sense of helplessness,<br />
as well as to the association of the aversive<br />
event with<br />
<strong>Learning</strong><br />
_<br />
In punishment, something bad occurs following an<br />
undesirable behavior; in negative reinforcement,<br />
something bad is removed. Complete the chart<br />
below of examples of punishment and negative reinforcement.<br />
The first example has been filled in for<br />
you.<br />
58. Which Is Taken Away, Is This Punishment or<br />
Behavior Consequence Something Good or Bad? Negative Reinforcement?<br />
Driving<br />
Lose driver's<br />
while intoxicated license Good Punishment<br />
a. Forgetting to give your<br />
roommate a phone<br />
message<br />
b. Putting on your coat<br />
so that you are<br />
no longer cold<br />
c. Getting a drink<br />
when you are thirsty<br />
d. Using your laptop<br />
until the battery dies<br />
e. Your brother nagging<br />
you until you help<br />
him with his homework<br />
Objective 7-9:Describe the the controversy over over Skinner's<br />
Skinner's views of human behavior, and identify<br />
views of human behavior, and identify some ways to apply<br />
some ways to apply operant conditioning principles<br />
operant at school, conditioning in sports, principles at work, and at school, at home. in sports, at work,<br />
and at home.<br />
59. Skinner's views were controversial because he<br />
59. Skinner's<br />
insisted<br />
views<br />
that<br />
were controversial because<br />
influences,<br />
he insisted<br />
that _______________________ rather than<br />
influences, _ rather than<br />
_______________________ and _______________________ _<br />
and _______________________ shape behavior. shape behavior.<br />
60. 60. Skinner Skinner also also advocated advocated the the use use of of<br />
_________ principles to influence people<br />
in ways that promote more desirable<br />
_______________________ principles to influence people<br />
in ways that promote more desirable<br />
_______________________ .<br />
61. Skinner's critics argued that he<br />
61. Skinner's ________ critics argued that people he by neglecting their<br />
_______________________ people by neglecting their<br />
personal _______________________ and by seeking to<br />
_______________________ their actions.<br />
62. The use of teaching machines and programmed<br />
textbooks was an early application of the operant<br />
conditioning procedure of _______________________ to<br />
education. Online systems, software that is<br />
_______________________ and<br />
_______________________-based learning are newer<br />
examples of this application of operant principles.<br />
Reinforcement principles can also be used to enhance<br />
_______________________ abilities by shaping successive<br />
approximations of new skills.<br />
63. In personal boosting productivity in the workplace, and by seeking positive to<br />
reinforcement _________ is (more/less) effective their actions. when applied to<br />
specific 62. The behaviors use of teaching than when machines given to and reward programmed general merit<br />
and when<br />
textbooks<br />
the desired<br />
was an<br />
performance<br />
early application<br />
is well defined<br />
of the operant<br />
and<br />
conditioning procedure of<br />
_<br />
_______________________ . For such behaviors,<br />
to education. Online<br />
systems,<br />
immediate reinforcement<br />
software that<br />
is<br />
is<br />
(more/no more) effective<br />
_<br />
than<br />
delayed andreinforcement.<br />
-based learning<br />
64. In are using newer operant examples conditioning of this to application change your of own operant<br />
behavior, principles. you would Reinforcement follow these principles four steps can also be<br />
used to enhance<br />
abilities by<br />
a. ______________________________________________<br />
shaping successive approximations of new skills.<br />
b. ______________________________________________<br />
63. In boosting productivity in the workplace, positive<br />
reinforcement is<br />
_<br />
c. ______________________________________________<br />
d. ______________________________________________<br />
(more/less) effective when applied to specific<br />
APPLICATIONS:<br />
65. The manager of a manufacturing plant wishes to use<br />
positive reinforcement to increase the productivity of<br />
workers. Which of the following procedures would<br />
probably be the most effective?<br />
a. Deserving employees are given a general merit<br />
bonus at the end of each fiscal year.<br />
b. A productivity goal that seems attainable, yet is<br />
unrealistic, is set for each employee.<br />
c. Employees are given immediate bonuses for<br />
specific behaviors related to productivity.<br />
d. Employees who fail to meet standards of<br />
productivity receive pay cuts.