Module 26 - Classical Conditioning

Which of the following is best defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience? 

• acquisition
• stimulus
• learning
• habituation

Lynn is teaching learning.  Every time she claps her hands, Charlie turns off the light.  When Randy claps in approval of Lynn's presentation, Charlie does not turn the light off.  What concept has Charlie demonstrated? 

• Habituation
• Discrimination
• Spontaneous recovery
• Extinction

Classical conditioning is the type of learning in which a person links two or more stimuli and 

• forgets about them.
• lays them out in sequence.
• shuts down.
• anticipates events. 

In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus

• naturally triggers a response. 
• is a naturally occurring response. 
• is initially irrelevant, and then comes to trigger a response. 
• objectively studies psychology

Students are accustomed to a bell ringing to indicate the end of a class period.  The principal decides to substitute popular music for the bell to indicate the end of each class period.  Students quickly respond to the music in the same way they did to the bell.  What principle does this illustrate? 

• Acquisition
• Habituation
• Generalization
• Functional Fixedness

The work of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson fits best into which of psychology's perspectives? 

• Humanism
• Gestalt psychology
• Trait theory 
• Behaviorism

Which of the following is not a finding of the famous classical conditioning study about Little Albert?

• Fear can be conditioned

• Classical conditioning is much more effective of less complex animals (like rats) than it is on humans

• Aversive conditioning is possible

• Complex reactions could be conditioned

Suzie is classically conditioned to be afraid of violins because every time they are presented, they are followed by a loud unpleasant noise.  Then, a violin is presented ten times without the noise and she stops showing a fearful response.  Of what concept is this an example? 

• acquisition
• spontaneous recovery
• generalization
• extinction

The idea that intelligent creatures can learn when two events occur alongside one another is most broadly called __________?

• associative learning
• operant conditioning
• acquisition
• generalization

Define conditioned response

• A response that does not have to be learned
• A response that has been learned
• A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex
• A form of learning