Unit 4 AP Psych Warm Up

Which key researcher contributed to taste aversion through his experiments with rats?

• BF Skinner

• Edward Tolman

• John B Garcia

• Robert Rescorla

A slot machine rewards the player with coins after they try an unpredictable amount of times. This is an example of a..

• fixed-interval schedule

• variable-interval schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

After helping clean the dinner table, a child is rewarded with ice cream. This is an example of…

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

Alex has a bad habit of biting his nails. Which of the following would be most helpful?

• Positive Reinforcement

• Extinction

• Elimination

• Aversion Therapy

The student is very confident in her work and thinks she got a good grade on her presentation. Her perception is of…

• learned helplessness

• internal locus of control

• external locus of control

• positive reinforcement

Learning that becomes obvious only once a reinforcement is given for demonstrating it. Studied by Edward Tolman.

• Latent Learning

• Observational Learning

• Conditional Learning

• Emotional Learning

The formation of a learned association is called

• acquisition

• generalization

• discrimination

• Conditioning

One of the first people to describe operant conditioning. Believed behavior was likely to occur when reinforced. HINT-trained pigeons to guide missiles.

• Albert Einstein

• Albert Bandura

• B.F. Skinner

• John Garcia

The work of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson fits best into which of psychology’s perspectives?

• behaviourism

• Gestalt Psychology

• neuropsychology

• humanism

Learning that certain events occur together is called

• shaping

• latent learning

• observational learning

• associative learning

• conditioned reinforcement