Psych Exam 4: Learning

According to the text, learning involves

• the ability to think abstractly
• a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
• the development of prosocial behavior
• a reduction in extrinsic motiviation

Type of learning where one acquires new information by connecting events that happen in an order

• Associative learning
• Classical conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Positive reinforcement

The reappearance of an extinguished response

• Extinction
• Acquisition
• Higher order conditioning
• Spontaneous recovery

Learning to respond to only one stimulus and to inhibit the response to all other stimuli

• Extinction
• Stimulus generalization
• Stimulus Discrimination
• Higher order conditioning

Type of learning in which behaviors are emitted to earn rewards or avoid punishment

• Operant conditioning
• Classical conditioning
• Social cognitive learning theory
• Acquisition

Decreasing response to a stimuli with repeated exposure

• Cognitive learning
• Observational learning
• Habituation
• Classical conditioning

What person is associated with classical conditioning?

• Ivan Pavlov
• B.F. Skinner
• Sigmund Freud
• Edward Thorndike

The stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning is the

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

When our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence is know as

• learning
• habituation
• association
• behavorism

Who was the psychologist that created the operant chamber?

• Edward Thorndike
• Ivan Pavlov
• B.F. Skinner
• Sigmund Freud