Question

The best example of operant conditioning is: A. playing the lottery. B. crying when hurt. C. feeling tired after a long day. D. puckering up after tasting a dill pickle.

Answer 1

Answer: puckering up after tasting a dill pickle.

Explanation: Operant conditioning in Psychology can be defined as a technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment.

This involves rewarding an individual to increase a particular behaviour and punishing an individual to stop or reduce a behaviour.

Puckering up after tasting a dill pickle can be said to be operant conditioning.

Answer 2

Answer: The best example of an operant conditioning is option D. Puckering up after tasting a dill pickle.

Explanation: operant conditioning is type of learning in which the desire and the frequency of a behavior depends on the consequences that follows the behavior. Therefore a behaviour that attracts rewarding and beneficial consequences will occur more, than a behaviour that attracts punishment and regrets.

To pucker up after testing a dill pickle means that the dill pickle was favourable and gives a sweet taste. That means a reward was gotten from tasting a dill pickle, this will increase the likelihood of that behaviour to occur, that means the individual will always want to taste a dill pickle.

In this example, Pickering up is the consequences, while tasting a dill pickle is the behavior.