Unit 6 Test

Question 1

Who is this person?

• Father of Behaviorism
• Little Albert experiment

Answer 1

John Watson

Question 2

What did the “Little Albert” experiment do?

Answer 2

Conditioned fear into a baby

Question 3

Who is this person?

- Created law of effect

Answer 3

Edward Thorndike

Question 4

What does the law of effect state?

Answer 4

Rewarded behavior will continue, punished behavior will stop

Question 5

Who is this person?

- Main behaviorist in operant conditioning

Answer 5

B.F. Skinner

Question 6

Who is this person?

• Main behaviorist in observational learning
• Bobo Doll Study

Answer 6

Albert Bandura

Question 7

What is learning, according to psychology?

Answer 7

Relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

Question 8

What is the most important element in learning?

Answer 8

Experience

Question 9

Most learning occurs through ________________.

Answer 9

Conditioning

Question 10

What kind of conditioning is this?

• Association between 2 stimuli
• Involuntary learning
• Stimuli can appear randomly

Answer 10

Classical conditoning

Question 11

What kind of conditioning are these examples of?

• Bell dismissing you at the end of the day
• Dog salivating at the sound sound of a bell

Answer 11

Classical conditoning

Question 12

Who is this person?

- Responsible for classical conditioning

Answer 12

Ivan Pavlov

Question 13

What component of classical conditioning is this?

• Something that automatically triggers a natural response.
• In Pavlov’s experiment, it was the food

Answer 13

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

Question 14

What component of classical conditioning is this?

• A naturally occurring event
• In Pavlov’s experiment, it was the dog drooling at the food

Answer 14

Unconditioned Response (UR)

Question 15

What component of classical conditioning is this?

• Originally a neutral stimulus that is associated w/ the natural stimulus
• In Pavlov’s experiment, it was the bell.

Answer 15

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

Question 16

What component of classical conditioning is this?

• The natural response that is elicited by the CS
• In Pavlov’s experiment, it was the dog salivating at the bell.

Answer 16

Conditioned Response (CR)

Question 17

The Conditioned Stimulus must be presented _____ second(s) before the before the US.

Answer 17

1/2

Question 18

What principle of classical conditioning is this?

- The weakening and eventually disappearance of the conditioned response.

Answer 18

Extinction

Question 19

What principle of classical conditioning is this?

- Conditioned response randomly reappears after a period of extinction

Answer 19

Spontaneous recovery

Question 20

What principle of classical conditioning is this?

- Stimuli similar to the CS elicits the same response

Answer 20

Generalization

Question 21

How can generalization be stopped?

Answer 21

More experience

Question 22

What principle of classical conditioning is this?

- Ability to distinguish between similar stimuli

Answer 22

Discrimination

Question 23

What principle of classical conditioning is this?

- Conditioned response is paired with conditioned stimulus, learning occurs

Answer 23

Acquisition