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Question 27

An animal trainer is teaching a dog to stop jumping on guests. The trainer advises the owner to turn their back and ignore the dog completely whenever it jumps up, but to give the dog a treat when it sits calmly instead.

Which of the following correctly identifies the operant conditioning principles being applied to the jumping and sitting behaviours respectively?

Negative punishment for jumping; positive reinforcement for sitting

Negative reinforcement for jumping; positive reinforcement for sitting

Positive punishment for jumping; positive reinforcement for sitting

Negative punishment for jumping; negative reinforcement for sitting

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Approaches in Psychology Questions

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Practise AQA A Level Psychology Approaches in Psychology with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 248 questions covering Learning approaches, Cognitive approach, Biological approach, Psychodynamic approach (A-level only), Humanistic Psychology (A-level only), and Comparison of approaches (A-level only), matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

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