Unit 6

By directly experiencing a thunderstorm, we learn that a flash of lightning signals and impending crash of thunder. This illustrates:

• operant conditioning

• the law of effect

• classical conditioning

• observational learning

If a tone causes a dog to salivate because it has regularly been associated with presentation of food, the tone is called:

• unconditioned stimulus

• primary reinforcer

• conditioned stimulus

• conditioned reinforcer

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• playing jump rope

• sweating in hot weather

• clapping after a thrilled concert performance

• getting money as a reward

In Pavlov's experiments, the dog's salivation triggered by the taste of food was a(n)

• conditioned response

• unconditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

• unconditioned stimulus

The researcher most, closely associated with the study of classical conditioning is

• Edward Throndike

• Edward Deci

• Albert Bandura

• Ivan Pavlov

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• salivating at the sight of a lemon

• raising your hand to ask a question

• working for money

• jerking your hand off a very hot stove

A patient who had a long fear going into elevators was told by his therapist yo force himself to enter 20 elevators a day. The therapist most likely wanted to encourage the ____ of the patient's fear.

• extinction

• latent learning

• shaping

• generalization

The infant Albert developed fear of rats after a white rat was associated with a loud noise. In this example fear of the white rat was the

• UCS

• UCR

• CS

• CR

Ivan Pavlov's experiments

• illustrated how the law of effect can be applied to conditioning

• revealed how biological predispositions

• showed the cognition is important to learning

• demonstrated how learning can be studied objectively

An organism learns associations between events it does not control during the process of

• negative reinforcement

• extrinsic motivation

• classical conditioning

• shaping