Psychology Learning Unit Test

Act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seems similar

• Generalization

• Spontaneous recovery

• Extinction

• Discrimination

Exposing a person to a harmless stimulus until fear is extinguished

• Systematic Desensitization

• Flooding

• Counterconditioning

• Exposure

Method of overcoming fears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared one.

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Counter conditioning

• Classical conditioning

Method that involves relaxation and gradual exposure to a feared stimulus.

• Flooding

• Counter conditioning

• Generalization

• Systematic desensitization

Form of learning based on the consequences of actions

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Primary reinforcers

• Secondary reinforcers

When a conditioned response stops occurring

• Discrimination

• Spontaneous recovery

• Extinction

• Unconditioned stimulus

Stimulus that causes an automatic response

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Unconditioned response

• Conditioned stimulus

• Conditioned response

Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs.

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Conditioned stimulus

• Primary reinforcer

• Secondary reinforcer

Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar

• Discrimination

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Flooding

Revival of an extinguished response

• Extinction reversal

• Spontaneous recovery

• Taste aversion

• Discrimination