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Psych Learning

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Negative reinforcement _______ the rate of a response; punishment ______ the rate of a response.
a)
Increases; decreases
b)
Decreases; increases
c)
Decreases; decreases
d)
Increases; does not affect
2.
John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.
a)
discriminative stimulus
b)
conditioned stimulus
c)
unconditioned stimulus
d)
extinguished stimulus
3.
With regards to ground beef, consumers respond more positively to an ad describing it as “75 percent lean” than to one referring to its “25 percent fat” content. This is an example of:
a)
The framing effect
b)
Confirmation bias
c)
Mental set
d)
Overconfidence
4.
Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long.  Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful.  After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated.  In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?
a)
tuna
b)
nausea
c)
mayo
d)
sight of any sandwich
5.

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

a)

positive punishment

b)

negative punishment

c)

positive reinforcement

d)

negative reinforcement

6.

For people who believe that others or outside forces (like luck or horoscopes) control their destiny is called?

a)

internal locus of control

b)

coping

c)

external locus of control

d)

self-control

7.
Marie works in a dress factory where she earns $10 for each three dresses she hems. Marie is paid on a
a)
variable ratio
b)
fixed interval
c)
fixed ratio
d)
variable interval
8.
Which of the following scenarios illustrates a variable interval schedule of reinforcement?
a)
Receiving a paycheck every two weeks
b)
Holding regular, but unpredictable, fire drills
c)
Earning a prize for every five books read in the library’s summer reading program
d)
Receiving five additional vacation days for each year of employment at a company
9.

Which is the defintion of extinction?

a)

No longer an organism species exists

b)

Getting rid of an unconditioned response

c)

Diminishing a conditioned response

d)

Only answering to the stimulus

10.

In classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is put into the mouth.

a)

unconditioned response (UR)

b)

Conditioned response (CR)

c)

Unconditioned stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

11.

Chandler's girlfriend, Monica, keeps bugging him to take her dancing. He finally agrees, and she quits bugging him. The next time she starts bugging him, he quickly agrees to do whatever she wants. This is an example of_______ for the nagging behavior.

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

positive punishment

d)

negative punishment

12.
Learning that occurs due to reward and punishment
a)
Classical Conditioning
b)
Operant Conditioning
c)
Learning
d)
Taste Aversion
13.

Whose name is synonymous with Operant Conditioning?

a)

Skinner

b)

Watson

c)

Thorndike

d)

Pavlov

14.
Mary woke up one night with a spider dangling in front of her face. She screamed, and from that point on she could not stand to be near spiders. Mary's fear of spiders is based on
a)
a response-outcome association
b)
classical conditioning
c)
observational learning
d)
operant conditioning
15.

_______________ occurs when an extinguished conditioned response reappears.

a)

Spontaneous Recovery

b)

Generalization

c)

Extinction

d)

Discrimination

16.

The law of effect states that if there is a pleasant stimulus-response reinforced, the behavior will increase, and the opposite is true if an unpleasant consequence is given as punishment. Who came up with this law?

a)

Edward Thorndike

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

John Garcia

17.

Seen here, this Bobo doll experiment proved his ideas about observational learning and modeling. When kids watch adults take their anger out on the doll, they copied the behavior. Name the researcher.

a)

BF Skinner

b)

Edward Tolman

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Wolfgang Kohler

18.

Edward Tolman had three groups of rats. Group A got reinforced for running the maze. B did not. C did not at first, but in the second half of trials, started to. What Group C proved was that the rats had knowledge of the maze, but needed some reinforcement to achieve their full learning potential. Because their learning was "hidden", Tolman called it...

a)

Observational Learning

b)

Latent Learning

c)

Abstract Learning

d)

Insight Learning

19.
In Pavlov's original experiment with dogs, the tone was initially a(n) _______ stimulus; after it was paired with the meat, it became a(n)  _____
stimulus.
a)
conditioned; neutral
b)
neutral; conditioned
c)
conditioned; unconditioned
d)
unconditioned; conditioned
20.

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...

a)

Efferent neurons

b)

Afferent neurons

c)

Mirror neurons

d)

Motor neurons

e)

Schwann cells