Psych Quiz 3

A stimulus that has no effect on the desired response prior to conditioning. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food bowl before the experiment.

• Neutral Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

The disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus or the removal of a reinforcer.

• Extinction

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Operant Conditioning

• Reinforcement

Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about which of the following?

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• counterconditioning

• latent learning

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

• Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

Items or events that when following a response will strengthen it.

• Reinforcement

• Punishment

Any event or stimulus that, when following a response, causes that response to be less likely to happen again.

• Punishment

• Reinforcement

What is the chemical used by a neuron to transmit an impulse across a synapse to another nerve cell?

• Neurotransmitters
• Synapse
• Threshold
• Impulse

what is also known as a nerve cell?

• neuron
• sensory nerves
• dendrites
• toes

research method where the researcher observes the subject in a natural setting without interfering

• Naturalistic Observation

• Case Study

• Longitudinal study

• cross-sectional study

the group that is treated the same way as the experimental group except that the experimental variable is not applied

• Single Blind

• Double Blind

• Experimental Group

• Control Group