Learning-AP Psychology Quiz

Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem as evidence of:

• Instinct

• Learning set

• Insight

• Spontaneous recovery

It's a very hot summer day and Viva is sweating in her apartment. She turns on the air conditioning and right away her apartment gets cooler. Viva is now more likely to turn on the AC when she is hot to reduce her discomfort. This is an example of:

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Punishment

• Positive punishment

When a conditioned response stops occurring:

• Systematic desensitization

• Spontaneous recovery

• Conditioned stimulus

• Extinction

Revival of an extinguished response

• Systematic desensitization

• Spontaneous recovery

• Conditioned stimulus

• Extinction

Psychologists E.C. Toleman did experiments on rats that showed:

• That reinforcement is not always necessary for learning.

• The success of Skinner's box

• How classical conditioning works.

• The effectiveness of negative reinforcement.

Alfred Bandura showed that we acquire knowledge by observing and imitating others. This is called:

• Partial Reinforcement

• Flooding

• Modeling

• Counterconditioning

Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

• counter conditioning

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• all of the above

Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs.

• Secondary reinforcer

• Primary reinforcer

• unconditioned stimulus

• conditioned stimulus

The reinforcement schedule that generally provides the most resistance to response extinction is:

• fixed-ratio

• fixed interval

• variable-ratio

• variable-interval

The process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again is called:

• Extinction

• Reinforcement

• Flooding

• Systemic autosensitization