Write each scenario with the blanks filled in. Each scenario identifies the characteristics of operant conditioning and classical conditioning. 1. Your father gives you a credit card at the end of your first year in college because you did so well. As a result, your grades continue to get better in your second year. This is an example of _____________________________________ because school performance is positive _____________ behavior. The credit card is a __________________________ because it is given and increases the behavior. 2. A professor has a policy of exempting students from the final exam if they maintain perfect attendance during the semester. His students' attendance increases dramatically. This is an example of ________________________________________ because attendance is ___________________________behavior. The exemption from the final exam is negative ______________________________________because something that increases the behavior (attendance) is taken away. 3. After a bad car accident, Mary cringes and breaks into a sweat at the sound of squealing brakes. This is an example of ____________________conditioning. The cringing, an ___________________________ response to pain or fear, was produced by the accident and its accompanying pain (UCS). That accident was probably preceded by the sound of squealing brakes, which became a conditioned __________________________________ for the conditioned _____________________________ of cringing.