Question

A class decides to pull a prank on their professor during a lecture. Every time the professor stands on the left side of the room, the class smiles and pays attention to the what the professor is saying. Every time the professor stands on the right side of the room, the class frowns and looks away from the professor. After about 15 minutes of this, the students notice that the professor is lecturing almost exclusively from the left side of the room. This is an example of ______________ conditioning. When the professor stands on the left side of the room, this is the_______. When the students smile and pay attention, this is the______.

Answer 1

Ope-rant, ope-rant response reinforces.

Explanation:

Ope-rant conditioning was proposed by B.F Skinner. Ope-rant conditioning occurs for leaning. Learning is the result of reinforcement, response, and stimulus. Learning occurs with the association between stimulus and response. Classical conditioning was given by Pavlov was too simple to explain the complex pattern of the behavior.

Skinner thinks that to understand behavior to observe the response and consequences of a behavior. In ope-rant conditioning, the response of a stimulus can be reinforced so that the subject does that task again and again. The behavior of the professor during lecturing was based on his ope-rant behavior His behavior was based on ope-rant conditioning.