Learning Quiz

relatively permanent change in an
organism’s behavior due to experience

• learning

• habituation

• conditioning

• perception

In ____ classical conditioning we learn to associate two stimuli, in ____ conditioning we learn to associate a response and its consequence.

• operant, classical

• observational, latent

• classical, operant

• classical, latent

What type of conditioning occurs when you take something away in order to decrease a behavior from occurring?

• positive

• reinforcing

• Extinction

• negative

1. What is it called when learning is occurring without conscious effort until there is an incentive to demonstrate it?

• classical

• latent

• operant

• acquisition

1. What is being associated in classical conditioning?

• A CS with a UR

• A UR and CS

• A CS and CR

• A CR and UR

What term is used to describe the decrease in responsiveness to a particular stimulus once it has been presented repeatedly?

• latent

• habituation

• operant

• observational

four basic kinds of learning

Association

•  A learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus

• A stimulus that (without any conditioning) naturally and automatically brings about a response

• 
  mental connection, a link, a relationship between two items

• • involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to a certain stimulus

What is a neutral stimulus?

• the decrease in responsiveness to a particular stimulus once it has been presented repeatedly

• A stimulus that before conditioning, does not bring about the response of interest

• A behavior that operates on the environment, producing rewarding or punishing stimuli

• A stimulus that (without any conditioning) naturally and automatically brings about a response

What is an unconditioned stimulus?

•  

  A learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

  
  

• The unlearned, naturally occurring response

•  stimulus that automatically brings about a response

• an originally irrelevant stimulus, that after association with an unconditioned stimulus