AP Psych Unit 6 review

If a child is offered a reward after they earn five A’s on her homework assignments. After her fifth A on a homework assignment, she gets to pick out a new toy, what type of intermittent reinforcement does this display?

• Variable Ratio Schedule - VR
• Fixed Interval Schedule - FI
• Variable Interval Schedule - VI
• Fixed Ratio Schedule - FR

Who taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell?

• John B. Watson
• B.F. Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• Edward L. Thorndike

Which type of operant conditioning adds a stimulus following a behavior in order to strengthen a response?

• Positive Punishment
• Negative Punishment
• Positive Reinforcer
• Negatice Reinforcer

What is it called when the brain connects events that occur in a sequence?

• Aquistion
• Associative learning
• Extinction
• Conditioned stimulus

What is it called when something pleasurable is removed or taken away after the behavior occurs in order to stop the behavior from happening again?

• Negative reinforcer
• Immediate reinforcer
• Negative punishment
• Positive punishment

Which is the defintion of extinction?

• No longer an organism species exists
• Getting rid of an unconditional response
• Diminishing a conditional response
• Only answering to the stimulus

Which one of these psychologist put a cat in a box and invented law of effect?

• Edward Thorndike
• B.F Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• John B. Watson

What is Habituation?

• Any relatively permanent changes in behavior brought about by experience or practice
• A decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure
• Connecting events that occurs in a sequence
• Acquisition of mental information by observing people or events through languages

What is Fixed Ratio?

• Varying and unpredictable number of response
• Fixed and predictable period of times
• Fixed and predictable number of response
• Varying and unpredictable period of times

What type of learning is associated with this: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events?

• Associative Learning
• Cognitive Learning
• Classical Conditioning
• Learning