learning quiz

Question 1

a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience.

Answer 1

leaning(according to behaviorist)

Question 2

the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience.

Answer 2

learning(according to cognitive theorist)

Question 3

a simple unlearned response to stimulus

Answer 3

reflex

Question 4

an environmental condition that elicits a response

Answer 4

stimulus

Question 5

is a form of associative learning in which organisms come to anticipate or associate events with one another

Answer 5

classical conditioning

Question 6

a stimulus that elicits a response from an organism prior to conditioning

Answer 6

unconditioned stimulus (ucs)

Question 7

an unlearned response to an unconditioned stimulus

Answer 7

unconditioned response (ucr)

Question 8

an unlearned response in which an organism attends to a stimulus

Answer 8

orienting reflex

Question 9

a previously neutral stimulus that elicits a conditioned response because it has been paired repeatedly with a stimulus that already elicited response

Answer 9

conditioned stimulus (cs)

Question 10

a learned response to a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 10

conditioned response (cr)

Question 11

an unlearned reinforcer whose effectiveness is based on the biological makeup of the organism and not on learning

Answer 11

primary reinforcer

Question 12

a stimulus that gains reinforcement value through association with established reinforcer

Answer 12

secondary reinforcer

Question 13

another term for a secondary reinforcer

Answer 13

conditioned reinforcer