Exam 3 Review

Classical and operant conditioning are both forms of what type of learning: 

 

• consequential

• accidental

• associative

• not related at all

Operant conditioning uses __________________ to increase desired behaviors. 

 

• punishment

• lizards

• schedules of reinforcement

• cats

Skinner, the founder of operant conditioning, believed that human behaviors:

• are shaped through reinforcement or punishment

• are associated with some type of environmental cue, like a tone

• cannot be reinforced, only paired with another stimulus

• are only a product of our minds and thought processes

What is the reappearance, after a pause, (e.g. slapping the sides of the podium) of an extinguished conditioned response called? 

• generalization

• operant behavior

• spontaneous recovery

• acquisition

Learning an association between two stimuli (food & bell tone) is known as __________ conditioning.

• operant

• spontaneous

• instrumental

• classical

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring knowledge or behaviors is called

• age

• reinforcement

• respondent behavior

• learning

Behaviors that are produce through rewards or punishers are called

• natural behaviors

• operant behaviors

• automatic behaviors

• respondent behaviors

______________ involves an unpleasant stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response. 

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

Learning by imitating the behavior of others is called ______________ learning. 

• moving

• operant

• associative

• observational

Who first proposed the law of effect, (before Skinner) that rewarded behavior is likely to recur? 

• Edward Thorndike

• Thomas Watson

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov