Learning and Behaviour Quiz

What is the study of how consequences affect behavior?

• Classical Conditioning

• Habituation

• Operant Conditioning

• Respondent Conditioning

What is the term for a decrease in the intensity or probability of a reflex response resulting from repeated exposure to a stimulus?

• Extinction

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• Habituation

What is the term for a series of related acts found in (nearly) all members of a species?

• General Behaviour Traits

• Phylogenetic Behaviour

• Fixed Action Patterns

• Reflexes

What is the term for a stimulus or event that sets the occasion for reinforcement?

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Neutral Stimulus

• Unconditional Stimulus

• Conditional Stimulus

What is the term for the tendency for extinguished behavior to occur again in situations similar to those it had been previously reinforced after time has elapsed?

• Extinction Burst

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Shaping

• Operant Extinction

What is the term for a rule describing the delivery of reinforcement?

• Operant Extinction

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Schedule of Reinforcement

• Shaping

What is the term for a short-lived rapid burst in responding following the initial exposure to extinction?

• Shaping

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Extinction Burst

• Schedule of Reinforcement

What is the term for a type of conditioning in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditional stimulus because of its contingent relationship with an already effective conditional stimulus?

• Operant Conditioning

• Higher-Order Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Respondent Conditioning

What is the term for a therapy in which a stimulus is contingently paired with a noxious (aversive) stimulus?

• Aversion Therapy

• Operant Conditioning

• Habituation

• Respondent Conditioning

What is the term for a decrease in behaviour due to the environment?

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Habituation

• Learning