Learning quiz

Define conditioned response

• A response that does not have to be learned
• A response that has been learned
• A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex
• A form of learning

In Pavlov's classic experiment, food was the

• Unconditioned stimulus
• Unconditioned response
• conditioned stimulus
• conditioned response

Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• The cat food
• The sound of the electric can opener
• The cat coming to the kitchen
• Tamara

When a child hears a loud noise, he cries. The family's dog often barks loudly. Each time the child sees the dog, he cries. What is the conditioned response?

• the dog
• The loud noise
• The crying
• The Barking

When is behavior determined by anticipation of what follows it?

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

In operant conditioning the behavior is determined by the anticipation of what precedes it.

• True

• False

Reinforcement is anything that strengthens or increases the frequency of a preceding response.

• True

• False

Negative reinforcement is the same as punishment.

• True

• False

Conducted experiments with rats and mazes to examine the role that reinforcement plays in the way that rats learn their way through complex mazes; led to idea of cognitive maps and latent learning.

• Edward Tolman

• Walter Mischel

• Martin Seligman

• Robert Rescorla

is an influential social cognitive psychologist who is perhaps best known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments.

• John B. Watson

• Edward Tolman

• Robert Rescorla

• Albert Bandura