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WorksheetsAP Psych Unit 5 Learning
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Research indicates that many animals are more likely to associate sickness with a taste they experienced in conjunction with the illness than with a tone or light. This finding supports which of the following claims?
the tone or light must not have been appropriately paired with the onset of illness
Illness is not necessarily punishing to subjects
Animals may be biologically prepared to learn some things over other things
Extrinsic reinforcers may be more effective than intrinsic reinforcers
Positive reinforcers are more effective than punishers
A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...
Efferent neurons
Afferent neurons
Mirror neurons
Motor neurons
Schwann cells
Learned helplessness is most likely to result when....
Responses have no effect on the environment
Young organisms fail to imprint at the critical period
A response is reinforced independently
Reinforcement occurs on an intermittent schedule
An organism receives negative reinforcement
After seeing her parents give her brother a dollar for cleaning his room, Sarah begins cleaning her own room. What would a social-learning theorist say is occurring?
Classical conditioning
Spontaneous recovery
Stimulus generalization
Discrimination training
Observational learning
BF Skinner's claim that the environment determines an individual's behavior was criticized for...
failing to explain how personality changes over time
Failing to acknowledge cognitive influences on behavior
Failing to acknowledge situational factors
Attributing behavior solely to genetics
Emphasizing unconscious influences on behavior
Although people can acquire phobias to almost any object of situation, certain phobias (e.g., those to snakes, spiders, heights) are much more common than others. This finding can best be explained by which of the following concepts?
Biological preparedness
Spontaneous recovery
Stimulus discrimination
Stimulus generalization
Observational learning
A person who is fearful of rattlesnakes but not garden snakes is exhibiting...
Response learning
Discrimination learning
Insight learning
Extinction
Generalization
In a classic study, a group of rats learned to run through a maze to obtain food, and another group of rats explored the maze without receiving good. Some time later, the researcher compared the two groups of rats to determine if both groups would find the food at the end of the maze. According to the researcher, the untrained rats found the food at the end of the maze as quickly as the trained rats as a result of
latent learning
observational learning
avoidance learning
counter-conditioning
aversive conditioning
A monkey is conditioned to flinch at the sound of a bell that was previously paired with a puff of air to the monkey's cheek. Which of the following explanations would be most consistent to a cognitive interpretation of this conditioning?
The animal cannot control its tendency to flinch because it is a reflex
The strength of the flinch is a function of the time interval between the onset of the bell and the air puff
The monkey interprets the bell as a signal that the air puff will follow
the bell is merely a stimulus substitute for the air puff
Monkeys are intelligent and know that they should flinch when they hear tones
Edward Thorndike argued that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and that responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This became known as the Law of...
Reinforcement
Associations
Punishment
Effect
Outcomes
Which of the following is a type of therapy for alcoholism that involves the administration of a drug that will induce nausea after a person consumes alcohol?
Aversion
Implosive
Flooding
Instrumental
Rational-Emotive Behavioral
Which classic study forms the basis for social (observational) learning?
Ivan Pavlov's salivating dogs
BF Skinner's key pecking pigeons
John Garcia's nauseous rats
John Watson's Little Albert
Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll
the terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with...
Classical Conditioning
Gestalt Theory
Hypothesis Testing
Operant Conditioning
Social Learning Theory
Learning that is not demonstrated at the time it occurs is called
Conceptualization learning
Social learning
Latent learning
Schematic learning
Insight learning
When a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus, a resulting decrease in the conditioned response is called
Acquisition
Incremental learning
Discrimination
Extinction
Generalization
Which of the following kinds of learning is involved when a person displays a new behavior after watching someone else perform it?
Generalization
Latent learning
Insight learning
State-dependent learning
Observational learning
Which of the following statements best describes the role of biological processes in classical conditioning?
A biologically-based unconditioned stimulus must immediately follow a conditioned stimulus in order for learning to occur
Any novel (new) or familiar stimulus could serve as a conditioned stimulus because the biological mechanisms underlying learning are very powerful
Because all animals share a common cellular history, the laws of classical conditioning apply to all species
Certain species are biologically predisposed to learn particular associations that enhance their survival
Biological reinforcers foster learning more quickly than do environmental reinforcers
A two-year old child is frightened by a small dog. A few weeks later the same child sees a cat and becomes frightened. The child's reaction is most likely an example of which of the following?
Stimulus discrimination
Second-order conditioning
Stimulus generalization
Sensory preconditioning
Spontaneous recovery
