Name: ______Date: ______

Chapter 8 FRQs

FRQ / Due Date
  1. For Vina, cigarettes reduce feelings of tension and anxiety. Because of her heavy smoking, however, she has a bad morning cough and breathing difficulties. How can the principles of operant conditioning help to explain the development and continuation of Vina's self-defeating smoking habit? Explain the extent to which the reinforcement for Vina's habit is positive or negative, primary or conditioned, immediate or delayed, partial or continuous.
/ Friday, Oct. 21st
  1. Mr. Byrne can't understand why scolding his seventh grade students for disruptive classroom behaviors makes them more unruly. Explain Mr. Byrne's predicament in terms of operant conditioning principles. Show how he could use operant conditioning techniques to (a) reduce disruptive behaviors and (b) increase cooperative behaviors.
/ Friday, Oct. 21st
  1. Many people are concerned about the effects of the use of physical punishment to modify the undesirable behavior of children.
A.Basing your answer on psychological knowledge, apply each of the following in an argument against the use of physical punishment:
  1. Modeling
  2. Classical conditioning of fear
B.How would psychologists use the following processes to modify children's undesirable behavior?
  1. Positive reinforcement
  2. Extinction
/ Monday, Oct. 24th

Name: ______Date: ______

Chapter 8 FRQs

FRQ / Due Date
  1. For Vina, cigarettes reduce feelings of tension and anxiety. Because of her heavy smoking, however, she has a bad morning cough and breathing difficulties. How can the principles of operant conditioning help to explain the development and continuation of Vina's self-defeating smoking habit? Explain the extent to which the reinforcement for Vina's habit is positive or negative, primary or conditioned, immediate or delayed, partial or continuous.
/ Friday, Oct. 21st
  1. Mr. Byrne can't understand why scolding his seventh grade students for disruptive classroom behaviors makes them more unruly. Explain Mr. Byrne's predicament in terms of operant conditioning principles. Show how he could use operant conditioning techniques to (a) reduce disruptive behaviors and (b) increase cooperative behaviors.
/ Friday, Oct. 21st
  1. Many people are concerned about the effects of the use of physical punishment to modify the undesirable behavior of children.
C.Basing your answer on psychological knowledge, apply each of the following in an argument against the use of physical punishment:
  1. Modeling
  2. Classical conditioning of fear
D.How would psychologists use the following processes to modify children's undesirable behavior?
  1. Positive reinforcement
  2. Extinction
/ Monday, Oct. 24th