A primary school teacher wants to increase students' participation in class discussions. She begins giving students a small sticker every time they volunteer an answer. After several weeks, she notices that students are volunteering significantly more frequently than before she introduced the stickers.
Which of the following best describes the teacher's strategy?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment by removal
Classical conditioning
Choose your answer
Was this exam question helpful?
A primary school teacher wants to increase students' participation in class discussions. She begins giving students a small sticker every time they volunteer an answer. After several weeks, she notices that students are volunteering significantly more frequently than before she introduced the stickers.
Which of the following best describes the stickers before the teacher began using them in the classroom?
Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Conditioned response (CR)
Neutral stimulus (NS)
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Choose your answer
Was this exam question helpful?
A primary school teacher wants to increase students' participation in class discussions. She begins giving students a small sticker every time they volunteer an answer. After several weeks, she notices that students are volunteering significantly more frequently than before she introduced the stickers.
A colleague suggests the teacher should instead give stickers unpredictably — sometimes after one answer, sometimes after several.
Which of the following most accurately describes why this schedule would produce more persistent participation than the current fixed approach?
It pairs the sticker with a neutral stimulus, creating a conditioned response.
Variable schedules produce slower acquisition but higher resistance to extinction.
Unpredictable rewards eliminate the need for the reinforcer over time.
Fixed schedules are more effective because students can anticipate the reward.
Choose your answer
Was this exam question helpful?