Classical Conditioning Quiz

According to a strict Behaviorist’s perspective, how is learning defined?

• C. A permanent change in behavior due to cognition

• A. A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

Who is known for basic research with dogs in the context of Classical Conditioning?

• A. Ivan Pavlov

• B. John B. Watson

What is the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience, according to a strict Cognitive Psychologist’s perspective?

• C. Learning

• B. Operant Conditioning

What is the term for a simple unlearned response to a stimulus?

• A. Reflex

• C. Response

What is the term for an environmental condition that elicits a response?

• A. Reflex

• B. Stimulus

What is the term for a stimulus that elicits a response from an organism prior to conditioning?

• D. Conditioned Response (CR)

• A. Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

What is the term for the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur?

• D. Higher-order-conditioning

• A. Extinction

What is the term for the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur?

• B. Spontaneous Recovery

• A. Extinction

What is the term for the recurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time?

• A. Extinction

• B. Spontaneous Recovery

What is the term for the tendency for an organism to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not forecast an unconditioned stimulus?

• B. Spontaneous Recovery

• C. Discrimination