psych ch6 Flashcards
_____ is learning that certain events occur together.
Associative learning
What type of behavior occurs as an automatic response to a stimulus?
respondent
James always bites his nails when he watches a suspenseful movie. This demonstrates that ______ is related to habitual behaviors.
learning
Leigh loves cats! She feeds her cats canned cat food. Initially, her cats get excited about the canned cat food but over time have begun to show excitement when Leigh uses the can opener. In this example, the excitement to the canned cat food is the:
unconditioned response.
A year after having her home burglarized while out shopping at the mall, Maggie still responds negatively to shopping bags and the mention of malls. This reaction BEST illustrates:
generalization.
Long after her conditioned fear of dogs had been extinguished, Marian experienced an unexpected surge of nervousness when she first met her cousin’s new cocker spaniel. Her unexpected nervousness BEST illustrates:
spontaneous recovery.
In operant conditioning, animals:
associate their own actions with consequences.
Who was modern behaviorism’s MOST influential and controversial figure?
Skinner
The law of effect is MOST clearly highlighted by:
B. F. Skinner’s experiments on reinforcement.
_____ is the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
Behaviorism
John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov agreed that:
laws of learning are the same for all animals.
John B. Watson believed that psychology should be the science of:
observable behavior.
This is the opposite of aggressive behavior.
prosocial
The majority of correlational studies that have examined television violence and aggressive behavior suggest that the more hours children spend watching violent television shows, the more likely they are to exhibit aggressive behaviors. What is the major problem with these findings?
Correlation does not prove causation.
If a child is watching a favorite sibling getting scolded for misbehavior, which type of neuron is likely to be activated in an empathic response to this observation?
mirror neuron
