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Psychology 101–Paper 1 Operant Conditioning Paper GuidelinesI advise you to begin writing this paper in advance of the due date (not Thursday night). You can certainly earn all 5 points in as few as 10 well-crafted sentences—students typically write around 15—but considerable precision is required to successfully complete this assignment. I’ll discuss it in detail Monday, and I’ll be in my office for five hours to provide feedback to all those interested. Additionally, your TAs will offer six widely varied Office Hours. I selected them for overall ability, but specifically for writing acumen. Please recall that Alex is going to a top Law School and Lauren will be an author. Hmmm…Use us. Good luck! ASSIGNMENT: In a page or less—11 or 12 font, 1.5 or double spaced—describe one situation in which your behavior changed OR did not change as a result of punishment.PROMPT: Briefly identify and describe the situation and the precise behavior in question, as well as the type of reinforcement (pos/neg) that most likely had developed and strengthened this behavior in the past (the reason why you engaged in this behavior). Was this the first time you performed it, or how often were you doing it?Define the precise stimulus used as the punisher: what was presented or removed in your case? Accurately describe the type of procedure employed (punishment or omission) and name the person(s) or institution(s) that administered the punishment. Indicate the precise form or manner in which it was administered. Was the punishment schedule* ever varied? Or, did the same schedule remain in effect throughout the entire procedure? Explain why this mattered, or didn’t matter.Use the key criterion measures for effective punishment–immediacy, magnitude, an

d contingency–to offer an appraisal of the procedure’s effectiveness. Briefly illustrate one strength or weakness of the procedure, or both, as it was administered. Finally, was the punishment procedure ultimately successful at terminating the behavior? If so, why? If not, please offer an explanation for why the program was not successful.A brief, information-rich paper is much like the Method section of a research report published in an academic journal. Just the facts. An almost telegraphic style, with no extraneous words, will yield great benefits. The variables are specified, and then the pertinent aspects of the Procedure are outlined. Well-written Method sections will often describe the experimental procedure through the eyes of the participant. That is a good way to tackle this assignment: provide a glimpse of what you experienced while your behavior was being punished. Please provide sufficient details from a personal experience, but do not extend your description beyond the one-page limit; your brevity will be greatly appreciated. In fact, it is mandated. Exceeding the one-page limit costs one point.***In principle, these are identical to schedules of reinforcement, with punishment or omission now serving as the consequence of a behavior. So, if a behavior is punished EVERY FIFTH TIME it is performed, that would be a Fixed Ratio–5 (FR-5) schedule of punishment. However, if the punisher is delivered at a rate of, “on average, about every fifth time the behavior occurs,” then it is a VARIABLE RATIO (VR-5) schedule.**Widening the margins=no penalty; a staple=a zero! (no smiley)You will need to also do another worksheet not regarding the essay its a whole other topic, watch the video and answer the questions. see attached its called herry