Chapter 6 MCQ

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

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• counterconditioning

• latent learning

Which of the following best describes a neutral stimulus?

• stimulus that causes an automatic response

• stimulus that does not cause a response

• stimulus that has been learned

• stimulus that is conditioned

What is the process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again?

• reinforcement

• flooding

• extinction

• systematic desensitization

Which of the following would be considered a secondary reinforcer?

• money

• food

• water

• all of the above

Who was the person who conditioned Baby Albert to be frightened of a white rat?

• Pavlov
• Watson
• Skinner
• Bandura

Influential psychologist conducting research on operant conditioning; animals and humans can be trained using positive and negative reinforcement; as well as positive and negative punishment.

• B.F. Skinner

• Albert Bandura

• John Garcia

• Walter Mischel

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

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

John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.

• discriminative stimulus
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned stimulus
• extinguished stimulus

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

• Punishment

• Reinforcement

• Variable

• Extinction