For Vina, Cigarettes Reduce Feelings of Tension and Anxiety. Because of Her Heavy Smoking

Name: ______Date: ______

Chapter 8 FRQs

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.

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.

1. Many people are concerned about the effects of the use of physical punishment to modify the undesirable behavior of children.

1. Modeling
2. Classical conditioning of fear

1. Positive reinforcement
2. Extinction

Name: ______Date: ______

Chapter 8 FRQs

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.

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.

1. Many people are concerned about the effects of the use of physical punishment to modify the undesirable behavior of children.

1. Modeling
2. Classical conditioning of fear

1. Positive reinforcement
2. Extinction