Chapter 12 - Learning and Memory

Question 1

Instinct

Answer 1

A stereotyped pattern of behavior elicited by particular environmental stimuli

Question 2

Learning

Answer 2

A relatively permanent change in behaviour or the capacity for behavior due to experience

Question 3

Associative learning

Answer 3

A type of learning that involves the formation of a connection between two elements or events

Question 4

Nonassociative learning

Answer 4

A type of learning that involves a change in the magnitude of responses to stimuli rather then the formation of connections between elements or events

Question 5

Habituation

Answer 5

A type of learning in which the response to a repeated harmless stimulus becomes progressively weaker

Question 6

Sensitization

Answer 6

A type of learning in which the experience of one stimulus heightens response to subsequent stimuli

Question 7

Classical conditioning

Answer 7

A type of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to signal the occurrence of a second biological significant event

Question 8

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Answer 8

In classics conditioning, an initially neutral event that takes on the ability to signal other biologically significant events

Question 9

Reflex

Answer 9

An involuntary response to a stimulus