AP Psychology Unit 6

Classical conditioning is when a person or organism links two or more stimuli and

• forgets about them
• lays them out in sequence
• shuts down
• anticipates an event

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 the same way they did to the bell. What principal does this illustrate?

• acquisition
• stimulus
• learning
• response

Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely is known as what?

• law of effect
• operant conditiong
• shaping
• classical conditioning

What do we call the type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer?

• Operant conditioning
• Classical conditioning
• Shaping
• Punishment

In order to stop Faith from bringing water bottles into her room her mom takes away her cell phone, this is an example of

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

What do we call it when CR decreases as the CS is repeatedly presented alone?

• Generalization
• Discrimination
• Spontaneous recovery
• Extinction

The basic idea behind classical conditioning is that the organism

• associate events
• associates behavior and resulting events
• voluntarily operates on the environment
• associates response with a consequences

What do we call the reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished response?

• Acquistion
• Spontaneous Recovery
• Discrimination
• Operant conditiong

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

• naturally triggers a response
• stimulus
• learning
• response

Which of the following processes is the best term for explaining how we learn language

• Biofeedback
• Discrimination
• Modeling
• insight