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- 1. Multiple ChoiceOnce Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a tuning fork, the tuning fork was a(n)unconditioned stimulusneutral stimulusconditioned stimulusunconditioned response
- 2. Multiple ChoiceShaping isa pattern of responses that must be made before classical conditioning is completedrewarding behaviors that get closer and closer to the desired goal behaviorcompleting a set of behaviors in succession before a reward is giveninhibition of new learning by previous learning
- 3. Multiple ChoiceJohn loves to fish. He puts his line in the water and leaves it there until he feels a tug. On what reinforcement schedule is he rewarded?continuous reinforcementvariable intervalfixed ratiovariable ratio
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best reflects negative reinforcement?Teresa is scolded when she runs through the house yelling.Greg changes his math class so he doesn't have to see his old girlfriend.Aditya is raised for having the best essay in class.Alex takes the wrong medicine and gets violently ill afterward.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWatson and Rayner's classical conditioning of "Little Albert" was helpful in explaining thathuman emotion such as fear are subject to classical conditioningsome conditioned stimuli do not generalizesmall children are not easily conditioned as older childrenfear of rats or rabbits are innate responses previously undiscovered
- 6. Multiple ChoiceJamel got very sick after eating some mushrooms on a pizza at his friend's house. He didn't know that he had a stomach virus at the time, blames his illness on the mushrooms, and refused to eat them again. Which of the following is the unconditioned stimulus for his taste aversion to mushrooms?pizzamushroomsaversion to mushroomsstomach virus
- 7. Multiple ChoiceLatent learning is best described by which of the following?innate responses of an organism preventing new learning and associationlearning that occurs in the absence of rewardsdelayed responses that occur when new stimuli are paired with familiar onesunconscious meaning that is attributed to new response patterns
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT learned through operant conditioning?a rat learning to press a bar to get foodfish swimming to the top of the tank when a light goes onstudying hard for good gradesdogs jumping over a hurdle to avoid an electric shock
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWho discovered classical conditioning through his dog experiments?Ivan PavlovBF SkinnerJohn WatsonEdward Thorndike
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWho demonstrated observational learning through his Bobo Doll experiment?John GarciaAlbert BanduraRobert RescorlaJohn Watson
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWho created the Operant Conditioning Chamber?Edward TolmanJohn GarciaBF SkinnerIvan Pavlov
- 12. Multiple ChoiceLearning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrencereinforcementoperant conditioningprimary reinforcersecondary reinforcer
- 13. Multiple ChoiceProcess of influencing behavior by means of unpleasant stimulinegative reinforcementvoidance conditioningescape conditioningaversive control
- 14. Multiple Choiceschedule of reinforcement in which changing amounts of time must elapse before a response will obtain reinforcementvariable-interval scheduleschedule of reinforcementshapingvariable-ratio schedule
- 15. Multiple Choicea mental picture of spatial relationships or relationships between eventscognitive learninglatent learningcognitive maplearned helplessness
- 16. Multiple Choicelearning by imitating others; copying behaviorbehavior modificationmodelinglearned helplessnesscognitive map
- 17. Multiple Choicetraining of an organism to withdraw from an unpleasant stimulus before it startsescape conditioningaversive controlavoidance conditioningresponse chain
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