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10. Provide an example from your own experience (your own behavior) of the Premack Principle in two-three sentences. Answer:

11. How would you establish a motivating operation before training your dog to “give paw”? Answer:

12. How do you think you might have “shaped” someone’s behavior toward you? Explanation shouldn’t be longer than one paragraph. Answer:

13. Provide an example of a competing contingency from your own personal experience (behavior). Answer:

14. Jonah has listened to his new CD over and over since he bought it. His favorite song is the fourth song on the album. Now, when he hears the third song, he becomes excited in anticipation of hearing his upcoming favorite song. Is this an example of classical or operant conditioning? Explain Answer:

15. Carlita used to get nervous whenever she had to travel by airplane. Recently, her friend taught Carlita some deep breathing techniques to help her relax. Carlita tried them out and felt much better when she next flew. Now, she always does deep breathing exercises before she flies. Is this an example of classical or operant conditioning? Explain Answer:

16. Describe how positive and negative reinforcement probably plays a role in drug-taking behavior/addiction Answer:

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Premack's principle suggests that if a high probability behaviour that leads or desirable outcome, is made contingent upon a low probability and less desirable behaviour, then the less desirable behaviour will be performed more frequently. In other words, the Premack principle provides support for a feature of operant conditioning where activities may themselves be reinforcers. Thus for instance, many of my classmates have shared that their parents promise to buy them a desirable object app such as an x-box, a new laptop/PC, a vacation out or a dress if they get a high grade in a difficult subject at the end of the academic year. Thus, the motivation to get the desirable reward here demands doing a less desirable activity. As a result, studying for exams becomes the activity which reinforces the more desirable activity like playing video games, or going out on a vacation or for shopping. As students will get more motivated to study if we knows that we will partake in a more desirable activity as a consequence.