Psych Unit 3 Review

a stimulus that elicits a response only after learning has taken place

• conditioned stimulus
• conditioned response
• generalization
• discrimination

a learned response to a conditioned stimulus

• conditioned response
• generalization
• discrimination
• extinction

discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell

• Ivan Pavlov
• classical conditioning
• neutral stimulus
• unconditioned stimulus

Anything in the environment that one can respond to is a:

• Reinforcer

• Response

• Discriminator

• Stimulus

Seals in an aquarium will repeat behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This example best illustrates:

• discrimination

• observational learning

• positive reinforcement

• spontaneous recovery

Maggie cries and throws a temper tantrum at the store and her mother ignores her and does not give her any attention. Maggie is less likely to have a tantrum the next time she is at the store because that behavior was:

• punished

• reinforced

• discrminated

• shaped

A kid is acting a fool in class, trying to make all his friends laugh. The teacher sends him to the "think it out" spot away from his friends. He misses out on a fun activity, and he does not act up in class again.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Information goes into our long term memory through:

• Attention
• Rehearsal
• Retrieval
• Semantic

The term for getting information into your brain.

• Recall

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Encoding

The term for retaining information in your brain.

• Recall

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Encoding