NEW
Font size
WorksheetsPsych Learning
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?
positive punishment
negative punishment
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
For people who believe that others or outside forces (like luck or horoscopes) control their destiny is called?
internal locus of control
coping
external locus of control
self-control
Which is the defintion of extinction?
No longer an organism species exists
Getting rid of an unconditioned response
Diminishing a conditioned response
Only answering to the stimulus
In classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is put into the mouth.
unconditioned response (UR)
Conditioned response (CR)
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
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.
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
positive punishment
negative punishment
Whose name is synonymous with Operant Conditioning?
Skinner
Watson
Thorndike
Pavlov
_______________ occurs when an extinguished conditioned response reappears.
Spontaneous Recovery
Generalization
Extinction
Discrimination
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?
Edward Thorndike
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
John Garcia
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.
BF Skinner
Edward Tolman
Albert Bandura
Wolfgang Kohler
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...
Observational Learning
Latent Learning
Abstract Learning
Insight Learning
stimulus.
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
