Operant Conditioning Practice

Identify the following situations as either, +R, -R, +P, or -P or NOTHING AT ALL.

An alcoholic, taking the drug anabuse, gets violently ill when he/she drinks alcohol.
Students who have an A in a class after the last day of classes are not required to take the comprehensive final exam.
Mark had just bought a new car. One feature it had was a computer with a voice that told Mark to buckle his seat belt when Mark started the car. As a result of the computer voice, Mark buckles his seat belt much more often than he did before.
One night when I was driving to a party, I backed into a mailbox, and it cost me $450 to get my car fixed.
When I help around the house, I get praise, cookies, etc. from my Mom.
When I waitress, I try to be really pleasant and helpful, since in the past when I have been that way, I've gotten bigger tips.
When I was younger, I yelled at my Mom, and got grounded
Dave sometimes teased Marsha about her red hair. One day this angered Marsha so that she slapped Dave in the face. She continued doing this whenever Dave teased her. As a result of this relation, Dave teased Marsha about her hair more often than he ever had before she began slapping him.
When there is a high pollen count outside, I take an anti-histamine a couple of hours before going outside.
In the past I have gotten pulled over and given a ticket for speeding. Now whenever I see a police car I automatically step on the break and slow down.
Whenever I talk about anything controversial with my pig-headed roommate we get into a huge argument.
I was in the grocery store and I saw a little boy throwing a tantrum over some candy he wanted. His mother kept telling him he couldn’t have it, but he just got louder and louder. She finally bought him the candy and he was immediately quiet. (This is another complex one. Consider the consequences for both the mother’s and child’s behavior.)
When my dogs needs to go to the bathroom and I ignore her jingling the doorknob, she harasses me (licking, jumping, running back and forth around me) until I take her out. .
I have several computer games that I am finished playing. I listed one of them on Amazon.com’s website as used and it sold immediately for $20 (I only paid $30 for it new). I then proceeded to list the other 3 games I have.
My friend Dave likes to play the game Taboo because he likes to incessantly press the buzzer. In order to stop him from doing this really annoying behavior, I told him that he was not allowed to touch the buzzer for the first three rounds.
Members of the Bellaruss’s Olympic men’s hockey were given a $22,000 bonus each for beating Sweden in the Semi-Final game.
When we were first together, my husband (then boyfriend) would occasionally call me from work to say that he was going to be staying late to get something done. Each time he did this I would always be very upbeat and thank him for calling and tell him how considerate it was.  (I NEVER complained about his staying late). Now he calls me everyday to say when he will be home.
When I first went away to college, my mom would call me early on Saturday morning and wake me up. I hated this and so I began telling her I was still sleeping and then hanging up on her. She now NEVER calls me in the morning.
When I worked in the elementary school last year I was surprised that as soon as the morning bell would ring, students immediately disappeared into their classrooms.
I am supposed to be working on my dissertation, which is a very unpleasant process for me. Since I have not made any progress lately, I have been going out of my way to make sure that I do not run into my advisor because I don’t want to admit to him that I haven’t been working on it.
A child is acting up in class every time the teacher asks the student to work independently on an assignment. When the student acts up the teacher comes over and reprimands the child. This has been occurring more and more frequently since the beginning of the year.

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