Learning Theories

Shaping is

• a pattern of responses that must be made before classical conditioning is completed
• rewarding behaviors that get closer and closer to the desired goal behavior
• completing a set of behaviors in succession before a reward is given
• inhibition of new learning by previous learning

A___________is anything that increases behavior

• Punishment
• Response 
• Reinforcer
• Negative punishment 

this psychologist ran a study with children and modeled behavior using a bobo-doll.

• Albert Schlansky
• John Watson
• Edward Toleman 
• Albert Bandura

Following a rest period, this is when a conditioned response returns despite a lack of further conditioning

• spontaneous recovery
• discrimination
• acquisition
• law of effect

This man worked with cats in a puzzle box and developed the law of effect.

• Edward Thorndike
• B F Skinner
• Pavlov

This is when we guide a creature toward the behavior by rewarding behavior that comes closer and closer to the desired behavior.

• shaping
• discrimination
• primary reinforcer
• viable interval

Which is being described below?
adding something unpleasant / aversive.

• positive punishment
• positive reinforcement
• negative punishment
• negative reinforcement

Which is being described below?
taking away something pleasant / desired

• positive punishment
• positive reinforcement
• negative punishment
• negative reinforcement

Which of the following is being described below
watching what happens when other people do a behavior and learning from their experiences

• observational learning
• mirroring
• modeling
• vicarious conditioning

Which of the following is being described below
experiencing indirectly, through others

• observational learning
• mirroring
• modeling
• vicarious conditioning