Chapter 7 Concept Quiz Flashcards
In classical conditioning, a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus to produce
a conditioned response.
What occurs when a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus?
Extinction
What did Watson and Rayner seek to demonstrate about behaviorism through the Little Albert experiment?
Even sophisticated behaviors such as emotion are subject to classical conditioning.
Which part of the brain is involved in the classical conditioning of fear?
The amygdala
After having a bad experience with a particular type of food, people can develop a lifelong aversion to that food. This suggests that conditioning has a(n) _____ aspect.
Evolutonary
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement concerning operant conditioning?
A Actions and outcomes are critical to operant conditioning.
B Operant conditioning involves the reinforcement of behavior.
C Complex behaviors cannot be accounted for by operant conditioning.
D Operant conditioning has roots in evolutionary behavior.
C Complex behaviors cannot be accounted for by operant conditioning.
Which of the following mechanisms has/have no role in Skinner's approach to behavior? A Cognitive B Neural C Evolutionary D All of the Above
D All of the Above
Latent learning provides evidence for a cognitive element in operant conditioning because it
occurs without any obvious reinforcement.
Which statement is true of observational learning?
A Although humans learn by observing others, nonhuman animals seem to lack this capability.
B If a child sees an adult engaging in a certain behavior, the child is more likely to imitate the behavior.
C Humans learn complex behaviors more readily by trail and error than by observation.
D Observational learning is limited to transmission of information between individuals of the same species.
B If a child sees an adult engaging in a certain behavior, the child is more likely to imitate the behavior.
What kind of learning takes place largely independent of awareness of both the process and the products of information acquisition?
Implicit Learning
Which of the following statements about implicit learning is inaccurate?
A Some forms of learning start out explicitly but become more implicit over time.
B Implicit learning occurs even in the simplest organisms.
C People with amnesia end to be severely impaired at implicit learning tasks.
D Children learn language and social conduct largely through implicit learning.
C People with amnesia end to be severely impaired at implicit learning tasks.
Responding to implicit instructions results in decreased brain activation in which part of the brain?
The Occipital Region
Which study strategy has been shown to be the most effective?
Taking practice tests
Which of the following statements is true about judgements of learning (JOL)?
A People are generally good judges of how well they have learned new material.
B The feeling of familiarity with material is usually an indicator of whether the material is learned.
C Based on JOLs, people generally spend ore time studying material they feel they know well.
D JOLs have a casual influence on learning.
D JOLs have a casual influence on learning.
Part of the value of self-testing as a study aid comes from:
helping to sustain attention during initial learning.
