Psychology Quiz

Blinking in response to a puff of air directed to your eye is a

• UR.

• US.

• CR.

• CS.

In teaching her son to play basketball, Mrs. Richards initially reinforces him with praise for simply dribbling while standing still, then only for walking while dribbling, and finally only for running while dribbling. She is using a procedure known as

• generalization.

• partial reinforcement.

• spontaneous recovery.

• shaping.

Pavlov noticed that dogs began salivating at the mere sight of the person who regularly brought food to them. For the dogs, the sight of this person was a(n)

• spontaneous recovery.

• unconditional stimulus.

• operant stimulus.

• conditioned stimulus.

The infant Albert developed a fear of rats after a white rat was associated with a loud noise. In this example, fear of the white rat was the

• US.

• UR.

• CS.

• CR.

If children get attention from their parents for doing cartwheels, they will repeat the trick in anticipation of more attention. This best illustrates

• spontaneous recovery.

• respondent behavior.

• operant conditioning.

• modeling.

The process of acquiring, through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors is called

• association.

• learning.

• spontaneous recovery.

• shaping.

Learning that certain events occur together is called

• unconditional responding.

• respondent behavior.

• observational learning.

• associative learning.

An empathic husband who sees his wife in pain will exhibit some of the same brain activity she is showing. According to many researchers, this best illustrates the functioning of

• cognitive maps.

• latent learning.

• mirror neurons.

• extrinsic motivation.

A neutral stimulus is an event or situation that

• evokes an unconditioned response.

• signals that an operant behavior will be rewarded.

• triggers a conditioned response.

• elicits no response prior to classical conditioning.

If a ringing bell causes a dog to salivate because the bell has been regularly associated with food in the mouth, the UR is the

• ringing bell.

• salivation to the ringing bell.

• food in the mouth.

• salivation to the food in the mouth.