AP Psych Unit 4: Learning Vocab Quiz

When we eventually lose our sensitivity to an oft-repeated stimulus. Once this occurs we will have reduced sensitivity to that stimulus, even if the stimulus changes.

• sensory adaptation

• habituation

• aquisition

• extinction

The food in Pavlov's experiment caused an unconditioned response. The food was the

• Unconditioned stimulus

• neutral stimulus

• Conditioned stimulus

• conditioned response

In classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.

• learning

• acquisition

• extinction

• spontaneous recovery

A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.

• first order conditioning

• operant conditioning

• modeling

• higher order conditioning

The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the CS.

• spontaneous recovery

• acquisition

• generalization

• discrimination

A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by punishment.

• classical conditioning

• modeling

• shaping

• operant conditioning

An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.

• modeling

• shaping

• punishment

• token economy

Administering an aversive or negative stimulus

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need.

• conditioned reinforcer

• positive punshment

• primary reinforcer

• token economy

Provides reinforcers after an unpredictable number of responses

• fixed ratio schedule

• variable interval schedule

• variable ratio schedule

• fixed interval schedule