Modules 3.8B & 3.9 (Biology, Cognition, Operant Cond & Learning)

Front

Which of the following did NOT believe that the principles of learning were the same in all animals? Darwin, Pavlov, Watson, Garcia

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Garcia

Front

What term refers to the biological predisposition to learn associations, such as between taste and nausea, that have survival value?

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Preparedness

Front

Which of the following was NOT true of Garcia's research on classical conditioning?
- He proved that conditioning doesn't have to immediately follow the conditioned stimulus.
- His rats developed aversions to taste but not to sights or sounds.
- His research contradicted the original behaviorists idea that any stimulus could serve as a conditioned stimulus.
- Biology is not a part of the learning process.

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Biology is not a part of the learning process.

Front

What term means a decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus?

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Habituation

Front

What is the term for any event or situation that evokes a response?

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Stimulus

Front

What is the general term for learning that certain events occur together?

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Associative Learning

Front

What is the term for a behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences?

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Operant Conditioning

Front

What is the term for a learning to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events like the bell/food in Pavlov's experiments?

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Classical Conditioning

Front

What is the term for the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language?

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Cognitive Learning

Front

Behaviorists value all the following EXCEPT: Response to stimuli, Prediction and control of behavior, Basic laws of learning, Inner thoughts, feelings and motives

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Inner thoughts, feelings and motives