Psych - Unit 4 Learning Vocabulary

A relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience is defined as

• development

• maturation

• learning

• conditioning

A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus is known as

• operant conditioning

• observational conditioning

• Skinnerian conditioning

• classical conditioning

A conditioned stimulus is

• a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.

• an unlearned reaction that occurs without previous conditioning

• a previously neutral stimulus that, through conditioning, acquires the capacity to elicit a conditioned response

• a learned reaction that occurs because of previous conditioning.

In classical conditioning, an unconditioned stimulus is

• an unlearned reaction to a stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning

• a learned reaction to a stimulus that occurs as a result of previous conditioning

• a stimulus that evokes a response without previous conditioning

• a previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to evoke a learned response

The initial stage of learning a response is called

• extinction

• contiguity

• acquisition

• conditioning

The continued presentation of the CS without the US will result in the gradual disappearance of the CR. This phenomenon is known as

• extinction

• inhibition

• suppression

• conditioned forgetting

The reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction and a period of rest is called

• disinhibition

• reconditioning

• stimulus generalization

• spontaneous recovery

Stimulus generalization occurs when

• there is a temporal association between two stimuli

• an organism fails to respond to stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus used in conditioning

• an unconditioned stimulus fails to elicit the unconditioned response

• an organism responds to new stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus

In higher-order conditioning ____ now functions as if it were ____.

• a conditioned stimulus; an unconditioned stimulus

• an unconditioned stimulus; a conditioned stimulus

• a conditioned response; an unconditioned response

• an unconditioned response; a conditioned response

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which

• responses come to be controlled by their consequences

• an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others' behavior

• involuntary responses are slowly replaced by voluntary responses

• a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a response that was originally elicited by another stimulus