Mod 15

Question 1

Behavorists deinfe learning as

Answer 1

a relatively permanent change in behavior caused by practice

Question 2

An unconditioned stimulus

Answer 2

triggers an unconditioned response reflexively or automatically

Question 3

In classical conditioning the UCR

Answer 3

is the response to the UCS

Question 4

The conditioned stimulus (CS)

Answer 4

is the originally neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the CR

Question 5

The conditioned response (CR) is the response to the

Answer 5

CS

Question 6

During aquisition, the ______ is paired with a ______.

Answer 6

UCS, CS

Question 7

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

a) clapping after a concert
b) playing jump rope
c) running through a maze to get a food reward
d) sweating in hot weather

Answer 7

d) sweating in hot weather

Question 8

Extinction occurs when a __________ is no longer paired with a _________

Answer 8

CS, UCS

Question 9

Spontaneous recovery refers to the

Answer 9

reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response

Question 10

Kathleen developed an intense fear of flying 5 years ago when she was in a plane crash. The fact that today she can again fly without distress indicates that her fear has undergone:

Answer 10

extinction

Question 11

In Pavlov’s experiments, the dog’s salivation triggered by the taste of food was an

Answer 11

unconditioned response

Question 12

In Pavlov’s experiments, the dogs salivation triggered by the sound of the tone was an

Answer 12

conditioned response

Question 13

The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimulus that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called

Answer 13

Discrimination

Question 14

Generalization occurs when

Answer 14

an organism produces the same response to similar stimuli

Question 15

Discrimination occurs when

Answer 15

an organism responds to a specific CS, instead of all similar CSs

Question 16

When an organism produces the same response to similar stimuli, behaviorsists say _____________ has occured

Answer 16

generalization

Question 17

A real estate agent showed Henry several pictures of a house for sale in the neighborhood while they were eating a delicious meal. Now, whenever Henry looks at pictures of houses for sale in the paper his mouth begins to water. Which of the following learning phenomena have occurred?

Answer 17

generalization

Question 18

Male Japanese quail became sexually aroused by a red light that was repeatedly associated with the presentation of a female quail. If this sexual arousal is elicited by a specific red light and not any other type of red light, ________ has occured

Answer 18

discrimination

Question 19

If Pavlov’s dogs started to salivate whenever they heard any type of tone similar to the tuning fork, Pavlov would explain that the dogs ________________ the response

Answer 19

generalized

Question 20

After learning to fear a white rat, Little Albert responded with fear to the sight of a rabbit. This best illistrates the process of

Answer 20

generalization

Question 21

In the little Albert experiment, Watson used the loud noise of a banging steel bar as the ____ to produce the UCR of crying

Answer 21

UCS

Question 22

Rescorla and Wagner showed that predictability rather than the number of times a CS and UCS are paired is important for classical conditioning. This finding highlights the importance of ____ in conditioning

Answer 22

cognition

Question 23

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, infants develop a fear of books after books are repeatedly presented with a loud noise. In this fictional example, the loud noise is an

Answer 23

Unconditioned Stimulus