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WorksheetsAP Psych Unit 6 Learning (1)
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
According to the text, learning involves
a)
the ability to think abstractly
b)
a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
c)
the development of prosocial behavior
d)
a reduction in extrinsic motiviation
2.
What are two types of learning?
a)
Operant and classical
b)
Operant and cognitive
c)
Classical and social cognitive
d)
Classical and social
3.
How many days does it take a human to learn associative learning?
a)
66 days
b)
60 days
c)
10 days
d)
25 days
4.
Who put Cats in a box with a lever that allowed it to get out with a bowl of food as bait?
a)
Edward L. Thorndike
b)
Francis Bacon
c)
John Locke
d)
William Wundt
5.
Who of the following was not a Gestalt Psychologist?
a)
Edward Tolman
b)
Wolfgang Kohler
c)
Sigmund Freund
d)
Martin Seligman
6.
Who did the Bobo doll experiment?
a)
Albert Bandura
b)
Edward Tolman
c)
B.F. Skinner
d)
John B. Watson
7.
If a child is offered a reward after they earn five A’s on her homework assignments. After her fifth A on a homework assignment, she gets to pick out a new toy, what type of intermittent reinforcement does this display?
a)
Variable Ratio Schedule - VR
b)
Fixed Interval Schedule - FI
c)
Variable Interval Schedule - VI
d)
Fixed Ratio Schedule - FR
8.
Who taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell?
a)
John B. Watson
b)
B.F. Skinner
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
Edward L. Thorndike
9.
Which type of operant conditioning adds a stimulus following a behavior in order to strengthen a response?
a)
Positive Punishment
b)
Negative Punishment
c)
Positive Reinforcer
d)
Negatice Reinforcer
10.
What is the acquisition of mental information by observing people or events or through language?
a)
Classical Conditioning
b)
Operant Conditioning
c)
Latent Learning
d)
Cognitive Learning
11.
Which psychologist trained dogs to salivate when they heard a bell by using classical conditioning?
a)
Edward Titchener
b)
John B. Watson
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
Martin Seligman
12.
What is it called when the brain connects events that occur in a sequence?
a)
Aquistion
b)
Associative learning
c)
Extinction
d)
Conditioned stimulus
13.
What is it called when something is added to encourage th behavior?
a)
Positive reinforcer
b)
Negative reinforcer
c)
Unconditioned stimulus
d)
extinction
14.
What is it called when something pleasurable is removed or taken away after the behavior occurs in order to stop the behavior from happening again?
a)
Negative reinforcer
b)
Immediate reinforcer
c)
Negative punishment
d)
Positive punishment
15.
What is it called when some is removed to encourage behavior to happen again?
a)
Negative reinforcer
b)
Spontaneous recovery
c)
Negative punishment
d)
Positive reinforcer
16.
What is it called when something is added or an unpleasant stimulus is applied to decrease a behavior?
a)
Delayed reinforcer
b)
Unconditioned response
c)
Conditioned response
d)
Positive punishment
17.
Which one of these are a key psychologists in learning?
a)
Ivan Pavlov
b)
Carl Rogers
c)
Abraham Maslow
d)
B.F. Skinner
18.
Which is the defintion of extinction?
a)
No longer an organism species exists
b)
Getting rid of an unconditional response
c)
Diminishing a conditional response
d)
Only answering to the stimulus
19.
Which one of these psychologist put a cat in a box and invented law of effect?
a)
Edward Thorndike
b)
B.F Skinner
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
John B. Watson
20.
What is Habituation?
a)
Any relatively permanent changes in behavior brought about by experience or practice
b)
A decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure
c)
Connecting events that occurs in a sequence
d)
Acquisition of mental information by observing people or events through languages
21.
Which scientist did the study on Little Albert?
a)
Ivan Pavlov
b)
John B. Watson
c)
B. F. Skinner
d)
Edward L. Thorndike
22.
What is Fixed Ratio?
a)
Varying and unpredictable number of response
b)
Fixed and predictable period of times
c)
Fixed and predictable number of response
d)
Varying and unpredictable period of times
23.
Who did the rat maze?
a)
Wolfgang Kohler
b)
Martin Seligman
c)
Edward Tolman
d)
Albert Bandura
24.
What is Vicarious learning?
a)
Learned by observing others
b)
Observing others and following their behaviors
c)
Mimicking what others are doing
d)
Ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for long term reward
25.
Whis one is NOT a trait of reinforcers?
a)
Adds something
b)
Strengthens response
c)
Gives a reward
d)
Teaches discriminating
26.
Which one is NOT a trait of prosocial behavior?
a)
Positive
b)
Constructive
c)
Helpful
d)
Learns from aggressive behavior
27.
What psychologist is associated with classical conditioning?
a)
John B. Watson
b)
Edward L. Thorndike
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
Sigmund Freud
28.
What type of learning is associated with this: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events?
a)
Associative Learning
b)
Cognitive Learning
c)
Classical Conditioning
d)
Learning
29.
What person was associated with observational learning?
a)
Albert Bandura
b)
John B. Watson
c)
Edward L. Thorndike
d)
Ivan Pavlov
30.
What is Modeling?
a)
Learning by observing others
b)
Being observed by others for your actions
c)
Operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior towards the desired behavior
d)
How your viewpoints get changed by the people around us
31.
What psychologist is created the Law of effect?
a)
Thorndike
b)
Bandura
c)
Freud
d)
Skinner
32.
Which of these is not a problem with punishment
a)
teaches discrimination
b)
causes aggresion through modeling
c)
time consuming
d)
teaches fear
33.
what does operant conditioning deal with
a)
US, UCR, CS, CR
b)
modeling and vicarious learning
c)
learned helplessness
d)
reinforcement and punishment
34.
what does little albert transferring his fear of rats to fear of rabbits exemplify?
a)
discrimination
b)
generalization
c)
acquisition
d)
pairing
35.
which is an example of a variable ratio schedule?
a)
hunting
b)
pay checks
c)
texting
d)
free coffee after 10 purchases
36.
Coping is alleviating stress by solving problems using
a)
emotional methods
b)
behavioral methods
c)
cognitive methods
d)
all of the above
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