Assessment Learning Unit 6

Act of responding in the same ways to stimuli that seem to be similar

• conditioned stimulus

• primary reinforcer

• generalization

• systematic desensitization

Exposing a person to a harmless stimulus until fear is extinguished

• extinction

• counter conditioning

• discrimination

• flooding

Method that involves relaxation and gradual exposure to a feared stimulus

• classical conditioning

• unconditioned stimulus

• conditioned stimulus

• systematic desensitization

Form of learning based on the consequences of actions

• Classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• primary reinforcer

• counter conditioning

When a conditioned response stops occuring

• extinction

• discrimination

• primary reinforcer

• flooding

Stimulus that causes an automatic response

• primary reinforcer

• classical conditioning

• unconditioned stimulus

• secondary reinforcer

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

• secondary reinforcer

• generalization

• counter conditioning

• primary reinforcer

Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar

• systematic desensitization

• conditioned stimulus

• discrimination

• secondary reinforcer

Revival of an extinguished response

• spontaneous recovery

• classical conditioning

• secondary reinforcer

• generalization

Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about

• operant donditioning

• counter conditioning

• classical conditioning

• all of the above