2301 Exam 2 PT 2 Fall 2024

What is the main idea of social learning theory?

• Behavior is motivated by the consequences we receive for the behavior: reinforcements and punishments.

• Fear is a conditioned response.

• Learning can occur when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

• One can learn new behaviors by observing others.

A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience is called:

• conditioning

• instincts

• learning

• reflexes

Learning by association is known as:

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

In classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with the word ________.

• learned

• instinctive

• reflexive

• reactive

In classical conditioning, the unconditioned response (UR) is:

• a response that is learned

• a neutral response

• a different response

• a reflex or unlearned response

Ms. Liendo had an appendicitis that made her really sick. One of the last things she ate and also threw up was flan. Ms. Liendo came to associate flan with feeling nauseous. Even now, just the thought of flan makes Ms. Liendo nauseas. Ms. Liendo's nausea's reaction to flan is the _________.

• unconditioned stimulus

• unconditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

• conditioned response

This dude accidently discovered classical conditioning while doing research on the role of salivation in digestion and eating.

• John B. Watson

• B. F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Edward Thorndike

What did John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrate with their studies of Little Albert?

• boys display fear differently from girls

• boys display more fear than girls

• emotion can be a conditioned response

• fear cannot be a conditioned response

Which of the following best demonstrates classical conditioning?

• blindfolding someone and timing him to see how long he takes to find a button hidden in a room

• determining how long it takes a person to learn how to knit if he is only allowed to watch YouTube videos of people knitting

• knowing that a student fears exams, the instructor wears a bright red shirt only on exam day, every exam day, to see how long it is before the red shirt becomes an object of fear to the student

• rewarding a boy for finishing his vegetables with ice cream and counting how many nights of reinforcement are required before he voluntarily eats his vegetables

When you eat something for the first time and it makes you sick, and then you never want to eat it again because it makes you feel nauseous:

• social learning

• taste aversion

• operant conditioning

• behavior modification