Operant and Observational Conditioning

Question 1

The type of learning in which behaviors are emitted to earn rewards or avoid punishments:

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Operant Conditioning

Question 2

The type of learning in which behaviors are learned by observing a model:

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Operational/Social Learning

Question 3

First psychologist to formulate the theory of operant conditioning:

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E.L. Thorndike

Question 4

What did Thorndike call operant conditioning?

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Instrumental Conditioning

Question 5

Rewarded behavior is likely to occur again:

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Thorndike’s Law of Effect

Question 6

Actions only incidentally tied to good results:

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Superstitious Behaviors

Question 7

Thorndike created a _______ box to use with _____:

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Puzzle; cats

Question 8

Father for operant conditioning:

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B.F. Skinner

Question 9

Creator of the Operant Chamber:

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Skinner

Question 10

A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement:

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Discriminative Stimulus

Question 11

Add a desirable stimulus:

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Positive Reinforcement

Question 12

Remove an aversive stimulus NOT A PUNISHMENT:

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Negative Reinforcement

Question 13

Innately satisfying:

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Primary Reinforcer

Question 14

Gains power through its association with the primary reinforcer:

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Secondary Reinforcer

Question 15

Used to increase a list of acceptable behaviors by earning _____:

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Token

Question 16

Reinforcement should mean something to the individual:

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Premack Principle

Question 17

Reinforcement that occurs instantly after a behavior:

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Immediate Reinforcer

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A reinforcement that is delayed in time for a certain behavior:

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Delayed Reinforcer

Question 19

We may be inclined to engage in _____ _______ reinforcers rather than ____ _____;

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Small; immediate; large; delayed

Question 20

Response is reinforced every time it occurs:

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Continuous Reinforcement

Question 21

Reinforcing only some responses:

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Partial Reinforcement

Question 22

Results in slower acquisition but greater resistance to extinction:

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Partial Reinforcement

Question 23

Reinforcement after a set # of responses:

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Fixed-Ratio

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HIGH rates of responding:

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Fixed-Ratio

Question 25

Reinforcement after a set amount of time has lapsed:

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Fixed-Interval

Question 26

Reinforcement after average/unpredictable number of responses:

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Variable-Ratio

Question 27

HIGH, STEADY rates of resonding:

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Variable-Ratio

Question 28

Reinforcement after an unpredictable amount of time:

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Variable-Interval

Question 29

The WORST type of reinforcement:

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Variable-Interval

Question 30

Administer an aversive/undesired stimulus:

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Positive Punishment

Question 31

Remove a desired stimulus:

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Negative Punishment

Question 32

An organism learns to perform an operation to terminate an ongoing, aversive stimulus:

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Escape Conditioning

Question 33

Similar to escape conditioning but includes a conditioned stimulus and is preventive in nature:

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Avoidance Conditioning

Question 34

Occurs when successive approximations of a behavior are rewarded so that the organism eventually produces the desired behavior:

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Shaping

Question 35

Observed/Experienced through someone else and learning happens:

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Vicarious Punishment/Reinforcement

Question 36

May result from a situation where there is no contingency between behaviors and conseqences:

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Learned Helplessness

Question 37

A mental representation of the layout of one’s environment:

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Cognitive Map

Question 38

Cognitive maps are based on _____ _____:

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Latent Learning

Question 39

Learning that occurs but isn’t show until an incentive is given:

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Latent Learning

Question 40

Who proposed the theory of latent learning?

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Edward C. Tolman

Question 41

A relatively sudden solution comes to mind to a probem:

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Insight Learning

Question 42

Who studied insight learning with chimps?

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Wolfgang Kohler

Question 43

Desire to perform behavior for its own sake and to be effective:

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Intrinsic Motivation

Question 44

Desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment:

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Extrinsic Motivation

Question 45

The effect of promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do:

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Overjustification

Question 46

Skinner argued that behaviors were shaped by _____ influences:

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External

Question 47

The process of showing how something is done and then replicating the action:

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Modeling

Question 48

Frontal lobe nerves that fire when performing certain actions of when observing another doing so:

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Mirror Neurons

Question 49

Pioneering researcher of Social Learning Theory:

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Albert Bandura

Question 50

Known for Bobo doll experiment:

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Bandura

Question 51

Constructive, helpful behavior. It can prompt similar behaviors in others:

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Proscial Behavior

Question 52

Belief by Bandura that the environment influences the organism and its cognition which in turn influences the environment:

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Believes we can explain human behavior beyond social learning:

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Social Cognitive Theory

Question 54

The degree to which a person believes in his or her own ability to complete tasks or reach goals and influence situations:

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Self-Efficacy