Learning Quiz practice

A group of ranchers attempts to discourage coyotes from attacking their sheep by placing a substance on the wool of the sheep that makes coyotes violently ill if they eat it. Very quickly, the coyotes avoid the sheep entirely. In this scenario, what are the UCS, CS, and CR, respectively?

• The substance, the sheep’s wool, aversion to the sheep

• The sheep’s wool, the substance, aversion to sheep

• Aversion to sheep, the substance, the sheep’s wool

Dylan’s mother buys him a sailor’s cap before they go on a family fishing trip. On the boat, Dylan gets nauseated and vomits. The next day he gets nauseated just from looking at the sailor’s cap. The sailor’s cap has become:

• The unconditioned stimulus

• The conditioned stimulus

• The conditioned response

• The unconditioned response

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response is

• Modeling 
• extinction
• A token economy 
• Cognitive learning

The sudden recurrence of a conditioned response after extinction has taken place and after the passage of time is referred to as

• relearning

• stimulus discrimination

• stimulus generalization

• spontaneous recovery

When John turns on the light to his aquarium the fish swim to the top even before he sprinkles the food.  What used to be a neutral stimulus for the fish?

• the food
• the water
• the light
• John

A bell rings, then a puff of air into the eye causes a reflexive blink. After this happens on several occasion, the bell ringing alone causes a conditioned reflexive blink. The UCS is _________________ and the CS is _____________________.

• Puff of air; blinking

• Bell; blinking

• Puff of air; bell

• Bell; puff of air

Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• The cat food
• The sound of the electric can opener
• The cat coming to the kitchen
• Tamara

Who is the psychologist known for Classical Conditioning

• Ivan Pavlov
• Sigmund Freud
• Skinner
• E.L Thorndike 

Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n)

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

Learning is defined as

• any behavior emitted by an organism without being prompted

• A changed in the behavior of the organism

• A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience

• Behavior based on actions rather than reactions due to conditioning