Empirical Law Application Assignment "Be Like B. F. Skinner" |
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Click on the link - Positive Reinforcement Tutorial - to go to the tutorial website. Read through the useful examples that differentiate between a positive reinforcement effect and not. When you are ready then scroll down to the link "On to the practice exercise" at the bottom of the page of the last example and click on it. Read the puzzle and decide your analysis using the sequence we used in class. Possible answers are positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement, negative punishment, or none of the above. Click on the correct answer button on the website to go to the next example. Open up a document window in your favorite word processing program. If you find a puzzle that is difficult, tricky, or otherwise stands out to you then copy the classification puzzle next to the yellow question mark and paste it into your wordprocessing document. Number the puzzle (1-3). Analyze and report 3 puzzles that you thought were interesting, tricky, or useful. Upload the document for credit. Print your most interesting puzzle and bring it to class for discussion and analysis.
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