Unit 4-AP Psych

The last time you came home after your curfew, your parents grounded you for the next 2 weekends. Ever since you have been careful to come home on time. The change in your behavior can best be explained by

• operant conditioning

• observational learning

• habituation

• classical conditioning

• latent learning

Learning that certain events occur together is called

• shaping

• latent learning

• observational behavior

• associative learning

• conditioned reinforcement

After recovering from a serious motorcycle accident, Hannah was afraid to ride a motorcycle but not a bicycle. Hannah's pattern of fear best illustrates

• discrimination

• conditioned reinforc

• sponta

• shaping

• negative reinforcement

Using rewards to bribe people to engage in an activity they already enjoy is most likely to inhibit

• respondent behavior

• continuous

• latent learning

• spontaneous recovery

• intrinsic motivation

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• playing jump rope

• running through a maze to get a food rew

• sweating in hot weather

• clapping after a thrilling concert performance

• getting money as a reward

The law of effect refers to the tendency to

• learn associations between conse

• learn in the absence

• repeat behaviors that re

• lose intrinsic interest in an over-rewarded activity

• enhance conditioning using strict responses

Associating a conditioned stimulus with a new neutral stimulus can create a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. This best illustrates

• s

• spontan

• intermittent reinforcement

• higher-order conditioning

• extinction

Any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response is called a(n)

• conditioned sitmu

• positive rein

• unconditioned stimulu

• negative reinforcer

• positive punishment

Children learn to fear spiders more easily than they learn to fear flowers. This best illustrates the impact of _____________ on learning.

• spontan

• conditioned r

• shaping

• cognitives processess

• biological predispositions

Innately satisfying stimuli that fulfill biological needs are called __________ reinforcers.

• ficed

• primary

• positive

• continuous

• unconditioned