Learning and Conditioning

Question 1

The process by which experience or practice results in a relatively permanent change in behavior or potential behavior:

Answer 1

Learning

Question 2

Learning that happens when an organism connects two previously unconnected elements:

Answer 2

Associative Learning

Question 3

An understanding that there is a cause and effect relationship between 2 stimuli or a behavior and a stimulus:

Answer 3

Contingency

Question 4

The type of learning in which a response naturally excited by one stimulus becomes elicited by a different, formally neutral, stimulus:

Answer 4

Classical Conditioning

Question 5

What’s an example of Classical Conditioning?

Answer 5

A puff of air elicits one to flinch and blink

Question 6

A stimulus that naturally or automatically triggers a response:

Answer 6

UCS (Unconditioned Stimulus)

Question 7

An unlearned naturally occurring response to UCS:

Answer 7

UCR

Question 8

Elicits no response:

Answer 8

Neutral Stimulus

Question 9

An irrelevant stimulus that after association with UCS, comes to trigger a conditioned response:

Answer 9

CS

Question 10

Learned response to a previously neutral CS:

Answer 10

CR

Question 11

The process of learning a conditioned response by introducing a neutral stimulus before the UCS:

Answer 11

Acquisition

Question 12

The process of unlearning a conditioned association; break link between CS and UCS:

Answer 12

Extinction

Question 13

The reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response:

Answer 13

Spontaneous Recovery

Question 14

The tendency for stimuli like the CS to elicit similar responses:

Answer 14

Generalization

Question 15

The ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimulus that do not signal a UCS:

Answer 15

Discrimination

Question 16

Pair a new stimulus before the now conditioned stimulus and produce the conditioned response:

Answer 16

Second/Higher Order Conditioning

Question 17

Occurs when learning interferes with condition to another stimulus:

Answer 17

Blocking

Question 18

Who is the father of Classical Conditioning?

Answer 18

Ivan Pavlov

Question 19

For a quick acquisition, the time between the neutral and UCS should be:

Answer 19

1/2 a second

Question 20

Pavlov’s work proved that the process of learning can be studied ______:

Answer 20

Objectively

Question 21

Who was a strong nurturist?

Answer 21

John B. Watson

Question 22

Classical Conditioning may explain some emotional disorders like _____:

Answer 22

Phobias

Question 23

Robert Rescorla suggest that the ______ __ _________:

Answer 23

Concept of Contingency

Question 24

John Garcia showed that a duration between the CS and the UCS may be ____ but results in conditioning:

Answer 24

Long

Question 25

Organisms learn the predictability of a stimulus, not just repeated pairings like Pavlov believed:

Answer 25

Concept of Contingency