Module 26 Quiz

Which of the following is the best example of learning?

• A honeybee stings when the hive is threatened.

• A child flinches when he sees lightning because he is afraid of thunder.

• A dog salivates when food is placed in its mouth.

• A child cries when his brother hits him.

• A child feels ill after drinking sour milk.

In classical conditioning, a person learns to anticipate events by

• associating two stimuli.

• avoiding spontaneous recovery.

• employing cognitive learning.

• associating a response with its consequence.

• using operant behaviors.

In classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus

• is a reward offered for completing a behavior.

• naturally triggers a response.

• prompts spontaneous recovery.

• is a naturally occurring response.

• is initially neutral, and then comes to trigger a response.

Students are accustomed to a bell ringing to indicate the end of a class period. The principal decides to substitute popular music for the bell to indicate the end of each class period. Students quickly respond to the music in the same way they did to the bell. In this example, the music is

• unconditioned response.

• unconditioned stimulus.

• conditioned response.

• habituated response.

• conditioned stimulus.

Students in a school are accustomed to moving to the next class when music plays. After a period of time, the principal replaces the music with a bell to signal the end of class. If one day he plays the music by mistake and the students leave class, which of the following is being shown?

• Generalization

• Operant conditioning

• Spontaneous recovery

• Acquisition

• Habituation

A researcher paired the sound of a whistle with a puff of air to the eye to classically condition Ashley to blink when the whistle alone was sounded. Explain how the researcher could demonstrate the following. Generalization, Extinction, and Spontaneous Recovery

Who were the dudes you need to know connected to classical and operant conditioning?

• B.F. Skinner

• Pavlov

• Watson

• All of the Above