Classical and Operant Conditioning

Classically conditioned Baby Albert to fear white rats.

• B.F. Skinner

• John Watson

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Erik Erikson

In classical conditioning, the UCR:

• happens after the CR

• is the response to the CS.

• is the response to the UCS

• triggers the UCS to occur.

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• clapping after a thrilling concert performance
• jumping rope
• running through a maze to get a food reward
• sweating in hot weather

Learning is defined as

• any behavior emitted by an organism without being elicited
• A changed in the behavior of the organism
• A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience
• Behavior based on operant rather than respondent conditioning

Who taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell?

• John B. Watson
• B.F. Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• Edward L. Thorndike

The conditioned stimulus (CS):

• is the response to the US.
• is originally the neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the CR.
• triggers an unconditioned response reflexively or automatically when the CR happens.
• is what triggers the US to occur.

The conditioned response (CR) is the usually the same as the

• CS

• UCS

• UCR

• CR

Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n)

• unconditioned stimulus
• neutral stimulus 
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned response

In the original Pavlov study, the unconditioned stimulus was

• salivation to meat
• meat
• bell
• salivation to bell

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response is

• Modeling 
• extinction
• A token economy 
• Cognitive learning