PSTMLS

Question 1

Theories in Behaviorist- Associationist

Answer 1

1. Connectionism
2. Operant Conditioning
3. Classical Conditioning
4. Contiguous Conditioning
5. Human Associative Learning
6. Systematic Behavior Theory
7. Stimulus Sampling Theory

Question 2

Founder of Connectionism
Founder of Learning Theory

Answer 2

Edward Lee Thorndike

Question 3

Organism forms associative bonding or connection between Stimuli and Response

Answer 3

Connectionism

Question 4

What are the aspects of Human Activity according to Connectionism

Answer 4

Stimulating Situation
Response
Connection

Question 5

4 principles of Connectionism

Answer 5

1. Law of Belongingness
2. Law of Effect
3. Law of Exercise
4. Law of Readiness

Question 6

“Connections that are readily made because they seem
to be together”

Answer 6

1. Law of Belongingness

Question 7

“Stimuli-Response-Stimuli or Stimuli-Response-Antecedent Response”

Answer 7

2. Law of Effect:

Question 8

“Law of Use vs Law of Disuse”

Answer 8

3. Law of Exercise

Question 9

The learner must be matured to welcome learning

Answer 9

4. Law of Readiness

Question 10

Founder of Operant Conditioning

Answer 10

Burrhus Frederick Skinner

Question 11

One’s behavior is shape
through reinforcement
and punishment

Answer 11

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question 12

Responses produce by the
organism that acts on
the environment

Answer 12

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question 13

Principles of Operant Conditioning

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1. Reinforcement
2. Punishment
3. Shaping
4. Extinction
5. Generalization
6. Discrimination

Question 14

“ refers to any conditioning that strengthens a particular action.”
– Positive
– Negative

Answer 14

REINFORCEMENT

Question 15

“refers to any conditioning that weakens a particular action”
– Positive
– Negative

Answer 15

PUNISHMENT

Question 16

• used to teach animals or behaviors that they have never

performed before w/rewards

Answer 16

SHAPING

Question 17

refers to diminishing response when it is not ff by a reward.

Answer 17

EXTINCTION

Question 18

• refers to an act of responding to a new stimulus in a similar

way as to a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 18

GENERALIZATION

Question 19

• is the desired effect that the learner emit a specific response at a certain time on certain conditions.

Answer 19

DISCRIMINATION

Question 20

Founder of Principles of Conditioned Response or Classical Conditioning

Answer 20

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Question 21

“A Neutral Stimulus, when
repeatedly paired with a
stimulus that normally
elicit a response, comes to
elicit a similar or identical
response

Answer 21

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Question 22

PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Answer 22

1. Acquisition
2. Extinction
3. Spontaneous Recovery
4. Generalization
5. Discrimination

Question 23

The speed of conditioning may occur quickly if the CS is followed by a presentation of the UCS.

Answer 23

ACQUISITION

Question 24

Represents reduction or decreasing of a behavioral

response d/t absence of reinforcement.

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EXTINCTION**

Question 25

The response that have been learned extinguished can

reappear even w/o retraining

Answer 25

SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY**

Question 26

FACTORS AFFECTING CLASSICAL
CONDITIONING

Answer 26

1. Conditioned Stimulus
2. Time Control
3. # of Trials

Question 27

Refers to an act of responding to a new stimulus in a
similar way as to a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 27

GENERALIZATION

Question 28

Giving a learned response to a single specific object.

Answer 28

DISCRIMINATION

Question 29

Founder of Contiguity Theory

Answer 29

Edwin Ray Guthrie

Question 30

“A combination of stimuli which
has accompanied a movement
will on it s recurrence tend to
be followed by that movement
“

Answer 30

Contiguity Theory

Question 31

Basic Principles of Contiguity Theory

Answer 31

1. One Trial Learning
2. The Recency Principle
3. Movement Produced Stimuli

Question 32

“ a stimulus pattern gain its full associative
strength on the occasion of its first pairing w/
response”

Answer 32

One Trial Learning

Question 33

The last event or any situation w/c was done last in
the presence of a set of stimuli will tend to be done
again if those circumstances are repeated.

Answer 33

The Recency Principle

Question 34

Techniques for Breaking Habits

Answer 34

1. Exhaustion Method
2. Threshold Method
3. Incompatible Response Method

Question 35

• doing an act until it is no longer enjoyable

Answer 35

Exhaustion Method

Question 36

• introducing the stimulus that is weak, then gradually increasing the difficulty

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Threshold Method

Question 37

The stimuli for undesired response are presented along w/ the other stimuli that produce a response incompatible w/ the
undesired response.

Answer 37

Incompatible Response Method

Question 38

“ Founder of Experimental Psychology”

HUMAN ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

Answer 38

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Question 39

Learning and Memory Through Psychology

Answer 39

HUMAN ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

Question 40

Founder of Systematic Behavior Theory

“Drive-Reduction”

Answer 40

Clark L. Hull

Question 41

Hypothesized that
animals learn quickly
if (+) immediate
reward or
reinforcement

Answer 41

SYSTEMATIC BEHAVIOUR THEORY

Question 42

Founder of Stimulus Sampling Theory

Statistical Learning theory

Answer 42

William Kaye Estes

Question 43

refers to a number of theories differing with
respect to special assumptions and their
mathematical expression

Answer 43

Stimulus Sampling Theory

Question 44

Sharing a common approach to conceptual
representation of the stimulus situation and the
formation of associative connections, rather than to
a single coherent set of assumptions formulated to
apply to all the experimental procedures employed
in the study of learning”

Answer 44

Stimulus Sampling Theory