Unit 4 Review AP Psychology

Along with Robert Koelling he studied taste aversion in rats noticing rats would avoid water in radiation chambers due to it making them ill; he also helped with having wolves be fearful of sheep for ranch farmers. Timing of Conditioned Stimulus can be delayed and still have much power.

• John Pavlov

• B.F. Skinner

• John Watson

• John Garcia

After helping clean the dinner table, a child is rewarded with ice cream. This is an example of…

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

A slot machine rewards the player with coins after they try an unpredictable amount of times. This is an example of a..

• fixed-interval schedule

• variable-interval schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

The student is very confident in her work and thinks she got a good grade on her presentation. Her perception is of…

• learned helplessness

• internal locus of control

• external locus of control

• positive reinforcement

What is the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses?

• Application

• Stimulus Generalization

• Stimulus Discrimination

• Extinction

During his experiments with dogs, the unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment was...

• no salivation

• a ringing tone

• salivation

• having food in the dog's mouth

Yesterday, Mary competed in a martial arts tournament. She ended up placing fourth out of the ten that competed. Mary was devastated because she really loves the sport and has been practicing for the majority of her life. Which type of motivation is this demonstrating?

• Observational Learning

• Extrinsic Motivation

• Intrinsic Motivation

• Biological Predisposition

In Pavlov's experiment, the bell is the _

• Neutral Stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Unconditioned Response

A person is pinned down and tickled. At first, the person fights against it. Eventually, the person (seeing that they have no control) gives up and lets it happen. What is this an example of?

• An acquisition error

• Habituation

• Latent Learning

• Learned Helplessness

What is an example of a primary reinforcer?

• VIdeo Games

• Punishment

• Food

• School