EFC 232 Past Question

1. In Operant conditioning procedure, the role of reinforcement is:

(a) Strikingly significant

(b) Very insignificant

(c) Negligible

(d) Not necessary

(e) None of the above

2. According to Skinnerian Operant conditioning theory, a negative reinforcement is:

(a) Nothing but punishment

(b) A biofeedback

(c) A withdrawing or removal of a positive reinforcer

(d) An instinctive drift

(e) None of the above

3. Behaviour therapists believe that the respon-dent or classical conditioning is effective in dealing with

the non-voluntary automatic behaviour, whereas the operant one is success-ful predominantly with

motor and cognitive behaviours, Thus, unadaptive habits such as nail biting, trichotillomania, enuresis

encopresis, thumb sucking etc. are satisfactorily dealt within the :

(a) Classical Method

(b) Operant Method

(c) Trial and Error Method

(d) Insightful learning procedure

(e) None of the above