Psychology 100 Chapter 6 learning

Question 1

What is latent learning?

Accepted Answer

The learning of a skill that can be useful in the future, The learning of a skill without a reward

Question 2

What is spontaneous recovery?

Accepted Answer

Re-emergence of a previously CR after a delay or time, A CR that gets weaker over time

Question 3

What is acquisition?

Accepted Answer

Learning of a new skill or behavior

Question 4

What is observation learning?

Accepted Answer

Copying what other people do, The learning of a skill by watching someone else

Question 5

Exposure therapy is used to treat what?

Accepted Answer

Phobias

Question 6

Why is taste aversion so important?

Accepted Answer

Survival

Question 7

What is a good example of a primary reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

Food

Question 8

What is a good example of a secondary reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

Money

Question 9

Which side do behaviorists choose in the nature vs nurture theory?

Accepted Answer

Nurture

Question 10

This schedule of reinforcement is based off of time

Accepted Answer

Interval

Question 11

Taste aversion is especially important for who?

Accepted Answer

Pregnant women

Question 12

Who created classical conditioning?

Accepted Answer

Pavlov

Question 13

Who created operant conditioning?

Accepted Answer

Skinner

Question 14

Which is NOT a common place secondary reinforcers are used?

Accepted Answer

Hospitals

Question 15

Why did Little Albert become afraid of the rat?

Accepted Answer

Because a loud noise was paired with the rat

Question 16

Which type of reinforcement is more powerful and is a better motivator?

Accepted Answer

Negative

Question 17

Does a punishment increase a behavior or decrease a behavior?

Accepted Answer

Decrease

Question 18

Which is an example of a negative punishment?

Accepted Answer

Grounding your child

Question 19

What is extinction?

Accepted Answer

When a conditioned stimulus does not cause the CR

Question 20

What is a conditioned stimulus?

Accepted Answer

Was the neutral stimulus, now provokes a response

Question 21

Why is avoidance a problem in phobias?

Accepted Answer

The phobia cannot be overcome

Question 22

This schedule of reinforcement is predictable

Accepted Answer

Fixed

Question 23

In Pavlov's dog experiment what two items were paired to create the conditioned response?

Accepted Answer

Food and a ringing bell

Question 24

What is a neutral stimulus?

Accepted Answer

Something that provokes no response

Question 25

What is a secondary reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

Something that isn't inherently good or rewarding, Something that can be used to get something else

Question 26

Who conducted the Bobo doll experiment?

Accepted Answer

Bandura

Question 27

What is a conditioned response?

Accepted Answer

A learned response

Question 28

Who did the study on cognitive maps with rats that led to the cognitive revolution?

Accepted Answer

Tolman

Question 29

What is generalization?

Accepted Answer

When the CR is triggered by a different but similar stimulus

Question 30

Classical Conditioning is also known by what name?

Accepted Answer

Pavlovian conditioning

Question 31

What is the Law of effect?

Accepted Answer

An idea created by Edward Thorndike, Idea that results of a behavior effect future behaviors

Question 32

What does the term Tabula rasa mean?

Accepted Answer

Blank slate

Question 33

Why is discrimination important in classical conditioning?

Accepted Answer

Because otherwise people would react to everything the same

Question 34

Which of the answers below is resistant to extinction?

Accepted Answer

Partial reinforcement

Question 35

What is a cognitive map?

Accepted Answer

A mental map of a specific space

Question 36

When someone has a phobia and uses avoidance instead of facing their fear what happens?

Accepted Answer

They are relieved and it's a negative reinforcement

Question 37

What is taste aversion?

Accepted Answer

When you get sick after eating a food & can no longer eat it, When you dislike a taste or associate it with something bad

Question 38

Is continuous reinforcement or partial reinforcement more effective?

Accepted Answer

Partial

Question 39

If a mouse presses a bar and gets a piece of food every time how are they being rewarded?

Accepted Answer

Continuously

Question 40

What is shaping?

Accepted Answer

Rewarding behaviors that are working towards a desired goal, Rewarding intermediate steps

Question 41

What is an unconditioned response?

Accepted Answer

A reflex response

Question 42

What is pairing?

Accepted Answer

When you create associations between two things

Question 43

Do behaviorists believe humans are born with instincts and preferences?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 44

What is a good example of a positive reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

Giving a child a treat

Question 45

Observation learning is also known as

Accepted Answer

Modeling

Question 46

This schedule of reinforcement is the most powerful type of partial reinforcement

Accepted Answer

Variable ratio

Question 47

What is a reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

A positive reward

Question 48

What is a primary reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

A reinforcer that meets our basic needs, Something that requires no learning to be a reinforcer

Question 49

Do all types of stimuli require multiple exposures to create an aversion?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 50

What is discrimination?

Accepted Answer

Responding differently to different stimuli

Question 51

What is the difference between a positive and negative reinforcer?

Accepted Answer

A positive provides pleasure and a negative removes pain

Question 52

What is the term or terms for when you condition someone or something to multiple stimuli?

Accepted Answer

Higher order or second order conditioning

Question 53

This has the lowest response rate

Accepted Answer

Fixed Interval

Question 54

Who conducted the Little Albert study?

Accepted Answer

Watson

Question 55

In operant conditioning is the subject actively involved?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 56

What is an unconditioned stimulus?

Accepted Answer

A stimulus that produces a natural reaction

Question 57

Why did cognitive maps lead to the cognitive revolution?

Accepted Answer

They disagreed with behaviorist ideas

Psychology 100 Chapter 6 learning

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Psychology 100 Chapter 6 learning

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