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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.

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