Author Question: Sheila, a junior in high school, is talking to her friend Ann on the phone. Are you ready for Friday ... (Read 229 times)

cmoore54 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Sheila, a junior in high school, is talking to her friend Ann on the phone. Are you ready for Friday night's game? Ann asks her excitedly. I'm not going to be able to go, Sheila responds, crestfallen. My folks won't let me go out for a month. I flunked both physics and history, and they're berserk. I don't know what to think. I can't even go out with Tim, and I don't know how he's going to react.
Not letting Sheila go out and not letting her date Tim best illustrate which of the following according to behaviorism?

a. Positive reinforcement
b. Presentation punishment
c. Negative reinforcement
d. Removal punishment

Question 2

Mrs. Thornton gives a quiz every Friday in her pre-algebra class. Of the following, for the students who do well on the quiz, the quiz best illustrates:

a. a form of continuous reinforcement.
b. a form of shaping.
c. a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement.
d. a variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement.