Unit 6 -Learning and Behaviorism

What term refers to: an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it?

• habituation

• discrimination

• generalization

• fixation

What term refers to: in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time periods?

• variable-interval schedule

• variable ratio schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

• fixed-interval schedule

What term refers to: in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring behavior or action to the unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth.?

• conditioned stimulus

• neutral response

• unconditioned response

• reestablished stimulus

What term refers to: Russian physiologist whose research on salivating dogs advanced the understanding of classical conditioning?

• Dmitriy Mendeleyev

• Pyotr Medvedev

• Vladimir Gorbachev

• Ivan Pavlov

What term refers to: in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response?

• conditioned stimulus

• unconditioned stimulus

• neutral response

• discriminatory response

What term refers to: in classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response?

• spontaneous response

• acquired response

• innate stimulus

• unconditioned stimulus

What term refers to: a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment?

• intrinsic motivation

• extrinsic motivation

• genetic predisposition

• confounding factor

What term refers to: 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. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response?

• remembered response

• forgotten factor

• acquisition

• extinction

What term refers to: frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so-the brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation and empathy?

• motor neurons

• sensory neurons

• reflector neurons

• mirror neurons

What term refers to: a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake?

• intrinsic motivation

• genetic predisposition

• ulterior motive

• environmental predisposition