AP Psych Unit 4 Review

Which key researcher contributed to taste aversion through his experiments with rats?

• BF Skinner

• Edward Tolman

• John B Garcia

• Robert Rescorla

Which of the following types of reinforcement results in slower extinction but also slower learning?

• continuous reinforcement

• partial reinforcement

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

A slot machine rewards the player with coins after they try an unpredictable amount of times. This is an example of a..

• fixed-interval schedule

• variable-interval schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

Alex has a bad habit of biting his nails. Which of the following would be most helpful?

• Positive Reinforcement

• Extinction

• Elimination

• Aversion Therapy

People are more inclined to fear heights and spiders compared to butterflies and flowers. This is due to...

• superstitious learning

• biological preparedness

• associative learning

• instinctive drift

In observational learning, people learn by observing others. They are more likely to learn if they observe those who are...

• similar to themselves

• admirable and successful

• cruel and inhumane

• sympathetic

What is the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses?

• Application

• Stimulus Generalization

• Stimulus Discrimination

• Extinction

Father of classical conditioning.

• Albert Bandura

• Ivan Pavlov

• John B. Watson

• B.F. Skinner

One of the first people to describe operant conditioning. Believed behavior was likely to occur when reinforced. HINT-trained pigeons to guide missiles.

• Albert Einstein

• Albert Bandura

• B.F. Skinner

• John Garcia

Learning that becomes obvious only once a reinforcement is given for demonstrating it. Studied by Edward Tolman.

• Latent Learning

• Observational Learning

• Conditional Learning

• Emotional Learning