Learning Review

The process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again is called

• reinforcement

• extinction

• flooding

• systemic autosensitization

What is a method of overcoming fears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared one?

• counterconditioning

• spontaneous recovery

• operant conditioning

• systematic desensitization

What is it called when a conditioned response stops occurring?

• conditioned stimulus

• unconditioned stimulus

• extinction

• discrimination

What is the act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seems similar?

• operant conditioning

• flooding

• generalization

• taste aversion

What is a stimulus that causes an automatic response?

• unconditioned stimulus

• flooding

• generalization

• taste aversion

What is a stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs?

• flooding

• taste aversion

• primary reinforcer

• operant conditioning

What is the act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar?

• extinction

• discrimination

• conditioned stimulus

• spontaneous recovery

What is the revival of an extinguished response called?

• discrimination

• spontaneous recovery

• systematic desensitization

• secondary reinforcer

How does a conditioned response occur?

• automatically.

• a result of pairing an unconditioned stimulus with a conditioned stimulus.

• after extinction.

• as a result of all of the above

What is a method that involves relaxation and gradual exposure to a feared stimulus?

• spontaneous recovery

• conditioned stimulus

• systematic desensitization

• extinction