Chapter 6 LEARNING

Question 1

Our capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with our changing world.

Answer 1

Adaptability and Learning

Question 2

Who is a media executive, philanthropist, and a political activist who said “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”.

Answer 2

Oprah Winfrey

Question 3

What is the process of acquiring, through experience, new and relatively enduring information and behaviors? This process acquires information and memory and shapes out sleep patterns, roles, visual perceptions, thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and personality

Answer 3

Learning.

Question 4

What form of conditioning is it when we learn to expect events such as the arrival of food or pain?

Answer 4

Classical Conditioning

Question 5

What form of conditioning is it when we learn to repeat acts that bring good results and avoid acts that bring bad results?

Answer 5

Operant Conditioning

Question 6

We learn new behaviors by observing events and people. What type of learning occurs through language resulting in learning things that we have never experienced nor observed?

Answer 6

Cognitive Learning