Given below are two Lists in which List I indicates the type of operant learning procedures while List II describes their related procedure-paradigm. Match the pairs and choose the correct answer from the code given below.

List I

(Type of Operant Learning Procedure)

List II

(Related Procedure)

a)  Discriminated Omission i)  Cue Present → Response Made → Positive Reinforcement
b)  Discriminated Punishment ii)  Cue Present → Response Made → Negative Reinforcement
c)  Discriminated Operant iii)  Cue Present → Response Withheld → Positive Reinforcement
d)  Active Avoidance iv)  Cue Present → Response Withheld → Negative Reinforcement

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  1. a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
  2. a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i
  3. a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
  4. a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

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Option 3 : a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
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Operant conditioning 

  • Also known as instrumental conditioning.
  • It is a method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior.
  • Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence, whether negative or positive, for that behavior.
  • Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
  • It is also a procedure that is used to bring about such learning. 

Procedure-paradigm

  • The procedure paradigm uses a linear top-down approach and treats data and procedures as two different entities.
  • Based on the concept of a procedure call, Procedural Programming divides the program into procedures, which are also known as routines or functions, simply containing a series of steps to be carried out.

Discriminated Omission

  • The stimuli that tell that omitting alternative behavior will be rewarded. 
  • Hold the position without doing anything else and a reward will follow.
  •  Omission training is a method in behaviorism used to stop undesirable behaviors. 
  • Discriminated Omission will follow the procedure Cue Present → Response Withheld → Positive Reinforcement.

Discriminated Punishment

  • Discriminated punishment is an alternative paradigm that characterizes phobia as a choice behavior in which fear serves to punish an otherwise adaptive behavior.
  • Discriminated punishment will follow the procedure  Cue Present → Response Withheld → Negative Reinforcement.

Discriminated Operant

  • The discriminated operant is an operant response that is under the stimulus control of a discriminative stimulus.
  • Such control is established by reinforcing the response in the presence of that discriminative stimulus.
  • discriminated operant will follow the procedure Cue Present → Response Made → Positive Reinforcement.

Active avoidance

  • It refers to experimental behavioral paradigms where subjects are trained, following the onset of a conditioned stimulus CS, to move from a starting position to another position in the testing apparatus within a fixed amount of time avoidance.
  • Active avoidance will follow the procedure Cue Present → Response Made → Negative Reinforcement.

List I

(Type of Operant Learning Procedure)

List II

(Related Procedure)

a)  Discriminated Omission i) 

Cue Present → Response Withheld → Positive Reinforcement

b)  Discriminated Punishment ii) 

Cue Present → Response Withheld → Negative Reinforcement

c)  Discriminated Operant iii)  Cue Present → Response Made → Positive Reinforcement
d)  Active Avoidance iv)  Cue Present → Response Made → Negative Reinforcement

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