Learning and Memory Test

Car driver doesn't stop and hits elderly; he goes to jail

• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment

Putting the ball away when the dog brings it back

• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment

A rat getting food for pressing a lever

• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment

Employee is habitually late for work so he loses the privilege to listen to music at work

• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment

What is operant conditioning?

• A type of learning in which we make an association between two events by repeated exposure.

• A type of learning about the relationship between behavior and its consequences This relationship affects our future actions.

Your little sister was stung by a bee in the backyard. Now, whenever she hears a buzzing sound she becomes afraid. What is the Conditioned Response?

• the backyard

• the bee

• the fear when she was stung

• the fear when she hears a buzzing sound

Your sister was stung by a bee in the backyard. Now, whenever she hears a buzzing sound she is afraid. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• the backyard

• the bee

• the pain from being stung

• the fear from being stung

Your dog salivates whenever he hears you approach the cabinet where his treats are kept. Salivating to a dog treat is the____.

• unconditioned stimulus

• unconditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

• conditioned response

Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a tuning fork, the tuning fork was a(n)

• unconditioned stimulus
• neutral stimulus 
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned response

What is classical conditioning?

• Learning caused by pairing and association of two stimuli
• Learning by responding to environmental stimuli
• Learning explained by its consequences
• Learning explained by modelling