Behavioral and Social Learning Quiz

Learning can be identified as a relatively permanent influence on _______________ which occurs through experiences.

•     Behavior, knowledge, and thinking skills

• Behavior, knowledge, thinking skills and cognitive development

Ivan Pavlov defined an unconditioned stimulus as

• A stimulus that has no effect or does not produce a specific reaction

• A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response without any prior learning.

• The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of a behavior.  

A method of learning that occurs through reinforcements and punishments for a certain behavior such as raising your hand in class to speak is known as

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

• Modeled Conditioning

Using a reward of candy when students get answers right is an example of positive reinforcement.

• True

• False

Mrs. Carrington, a 2^nd grade teacher, models how to write today’s date (using the formula month-date-year). At what phase in Bandura’s observational learning would students imitate the teacher’s model by trying to write the date themselves.

• Reproduction

• Attentional

• Rentention

• Motivational

1.     Whether children imitate an aggressive model depends largely on _____________.

• Seeing whether or not the behavior is reinforced or punished

• Whether parents will get involved

• Whether they get their friend's approval

• How comfortable they are in the environment

Learning vicariously means you learn from your own experiences.

• True

• False

Once behaviors are established, reinforcement for correct responses should become _______frequent and predictable.

• More

• Less

_____________come in many forms and give us hints about when we should change our behavior and when we should not.

• Cues

• Modeling

• Reward

• Punishment

A teaching strategy known to contribute to generalization (carryover of behaviors, skills, or concepts from one setting or task to another) is using many examples from different contexts.

• True

• False