Psychology Ch 9 Exam

When portions of the amygdala are damaged in rats, the animals cannot be classically conditions to __________ new objects.

• Fear
• Remember
• Love
• Respect

Crying is an example of what area of development

• social

• emotional

• intellectual

• physical

an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.

• prejudice

• stereotypes

• discrimination

• bias

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response is

• Modeling 
• extinction
• A token economy 
• Cognitive learning

Learning is defined as

• any behavior emitted by an organism without being elicited
• A changed in the behavior of the organism
• A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience
• Behavior based on operant rather than respondent conditioning

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• clapping after a thrilling concert performance
• jumping rope
• running through a maze to get a food reward
• sweating in hot weather

Father of behaviorism; Baby Albert experiment - classically conditioned fear

• B.F. Skinner
• John Watson
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Erik Erikson

Who taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell?

• John B. Watson
• B.F. Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• Edward L. Thorndike

What is classical conditioning?

• Learning caused by pairing and association of two stimuli
• Learning by responding to environmental stimuli
• Learning explained by its consequences
• Learning explained by modelling 

Define conditioned response

• A response that does not have to be learned
• A response that has been learned
• A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex
• A form of learning