Modules 26-28

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

• naturally triggers a response
• stimulus
• learning
• response

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

In classical conditioning the unconditioned stimuli

• naturally triggers a response

• is initially irrelevant

• is pavlovian

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

• acquisition
• stimulus
• learning
• response

The work of Pavlov and John Watson fits into which of psychologies perspectives?

• Humanism
• Gestalt
• Trait theory
• Behaviorism

The purpose of reinforcement is to

• cause a behavior to stop.

• cause a behavior to diminish.

• cause a behavior to continue.

• strengthen the spontaneous recovery process.

• cause a behavior to occur for only a limited amountof time.

In which form of learning is behavior said to be influenced by its consequences?

• observational learning

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• latent learning

• insight

Skinner developed a behavioral technology that included a procedure known as

• shaping.

• modeling.

• latent learning.

• intrinsic motivation.

• conditioned stimuli.

An event that increases the frequency of the behavior that it follows is a(n)

• conditioned stimulus.

• unconditioned stimulus.

• reinforcer.

• operant behavior.

• discrimination.

Escape from an aversive stimulus is a ________ reinforcer.

• positive

• negative

• secondary

• partial

• delayed