Learning Test

1. Psychology is the scientific study of ____________________ and __________________ processes.

• Behavior and Facial expressions

• Language and Customs

• Behavior and Mental

• Movement and Environment

Learning to make an involuntary response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response.

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary and unlearned response. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food.

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Neutral Stimulus

An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, the salivation to the food.

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Neutral Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that becomes able to produce a conditioned response, after pairing with an unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, when the dogs linked the bowl with the food.

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Neutral Stimulus

The tendency to respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response. In Pavlov’s dogs, the sight of a bowl that is not the same bowl used in the experiment.

• Stimulus Generalization

• Neutral Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

The disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus or the removal of a reinforcer.

• Extinction

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Operant Conditioning

• Reinforcement

Which of the following best describes a neutral stimulus?

• stimulus that causes an automatic response

• stimulus that does not cause a response

• stimulus that has been learned

• stimulus that is conditioned

Who was the person who conditioned Baby Albert to be frightened of a white rat?

• Pavlov
• Watson
• Skinner
• Bandura

In Pavlov's experiment, the salivating to the sound of a bell is a(n)

• UCS
• UCR
• CS
• CR