Unit 6 Learning Review Quiz

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING causes the learning of a/an ____________ action.

• involuntary

• voluntary

OPERANT CONDITIONING uses ____________ to learn an action.

• rewards and punishments

• a neutral stimulus

In classical conditioning, the term CONDITIONED means

• learned

• instinct

• natural

• involuntary

UNCONDITIONED means

• unlearned

• learned

• modeling

• imitating

__________________ refers to when a response has been associated with a stimulus (or a reward/punishment).

• Acquisition

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Spontaneous recovery

Although Pavlov continues to ring the bell, he no longer feeds the dog. After doing this long enough, the dog begins to STOP salivating from the bell. This is an example of

• extinction.

• spontaneous recovery.

• generalization.

• discrimination.

Mr. Sira gets the chills from someone biting into an apple, but the biting of a pear causes no response. This is an example of _______________.

• generalization

• spontaneous recovery

• extinction

• discrimination

Pavlov's dog drools at the sound of a bell. If a whistle also causes the dog to drool, this is an example of

• generalization.

• spontaneous recovery.

• extinction.

• discrimination.

By rewarding behavior, the behavior is more likely to continue. This is known as the

• law of effect.

• classical conditioning.

• observational learning.

Shaping behavior can be accomplished by rewarding actions as they get closer to the final desired behavior. This is called

• successive approximations

• negative punishment

• vicarious reinforcement

• social learning theory