PSYC 4032 Ch 4 questions with correct
answers
1. Identify three behaviors that could all belong to the operant class of getting someone's attention. -
ANSWER-1. Any behavior that has resulted in someone looking at you. Examples include: raising your
hand, calling the person's name, throwing som...
5. Frank's dog frequently jumped on the couch until Frank began turning his back and not talking to the
dog whenever it jumped on the couch. What type of operant contingency is Frank using to train his dog?
Explain your answer. - ANSWER✔✔-5. Frank is using positive punishment. He removes his attention and
talking to the dog when it engages in the behavior (jumping on the couch) and the rate of the response
decreased as a result of the training procedure.
6. Under what conditions did Cameron and colleagues (2001) find that rewards negatively impact
intrinsic motivation? - ANSWER✔✔-6. Rewards decrease intrinsic motivation when they are loosely tied
to performance—when people are rewarded for just "showing up."
7. Imagine that your roommate spends 45 minutes a day playing video games, 30 minutes cleaning the
apartment, and 15 minutes reading a novel or other non-school book. With this information, how would
you use the Premack principle to increase the time your roommate spends cleaning the apartment?
Explain why this contingency would work. - ANSWER✔✔-7. The Premack principle says that providing
contingent access to a higher-frequency behavior will function as a reinforcement for a lower-frequency
behavior. Making access to playing the video game for 30 minutes per day contingent on cleaning for 15
minutes per day would act as reinforcement for cleaning.
8. How does Timberlake and Allison's (1974) equilibrium analysis differ from Premack's views of
reinforcement? - ANSWER✔✔-8. Equilibrium analysis states that when a contingency is set between an
instrumental response and a contingent response, equilibrium is disturbed—creating response
deprivation. The organism engages in more of the instrumental response to restore the equilibrium.
Premack's views did not take into regard equilibrium, just the relative frequency of the behaviors.
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