AP Psychology Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz

In classical conditioning, an organism forms associations between

• mirror neurons

• events that it does not control

• primary and secondary reinforcers

• its own behavior and resulting outcomes

• positive and negative reinforcers

An automatic response to some stimulus is called

• associative learning

• respondent behavior

• observational learning

• operant behavior

• latent learning

Learning that certain events occur together is called

• shaping

• latent learning

• observational learning

• associative learning

• conditioned reinforcement

Conditioning is the process of

• discrimination

• spontaneous recovery

• learning associations

• observational learning

• generalizations

The first experimental studies of associative learning were conducted by

• John B Watson

• B.F. Skinner

• Albert Bandura

• Ivan Pavlov

• Edward Deci

Albert Bandura is best known for his experiment concerning

• cognitive dissonance
• observational learning
• operant conditioning
• classical conditioning

Who introduced the term behaviorism?

• John Garcia

• B.F. SKinner

• John B. Watson

• Albert Bandura

• Ivan Pavlov

John B. Watson considered himself to be a(n)

• physiological psychologist

• cognitive psychologist

• behaviorist

• psychoanalyst

• operant conditioner

Associating a conditioned stimulus with a new neutral stimulus can create a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. This best illustrates

• shaping

• spontaneous recovery

• intermittent reinforcement

• high order conditioning

• extinction

The reappearance, after a time lapse, of an extinguished CR is called

• Reinforcement
• Generalization
• Extinction
• Spontaneous recovery