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AP Psych Unit 4

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who are 2 important Psycologists and why?

a)

Max Weber: "Looking-glass"

b)

Ivan Pavlov: "classical conditioning"

c)

B.F. Skinner: "Skinner box"

2.

Learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought by experience or practice

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Behaviorists study what?

(a)  

4.

What was Pavlov originally studying and what did he find?

a)

Digestion in dogs; Classical conditioning

b)

Digestion in dogs;

Operant conditioning

c)

Classical conditioning; Digestion in dogs

d)

Operant conditioning; Digestion in dogs

5.

Classical Conditioning: You form an (a)   between 2 stimuli.

6.

An Unconditioned Stimulus is automatically triggered by a response

a)

False

b)

True

7.

An unconditioned response is an ______ _____ to stimuli

(a)  

8.

Condition Stimulus

a)

Previously paired now unpaired

b)

No longer paired causing it to be extinct

c)

Make a stimulus connection again but is not as strong

d)

Previously unpaired now paired

9.

A conditioned Response has been _____ after the _______ has been made

a)

Automatic;

Connection

b)

Learned;

Association

c)

Paired;

Association

10.

An organism learns associations between events it does not control during the process of (a)   ?

11.

The first experimental studies of associative learning were conducted by (a)   ?

12.

Pavlov's experiments: the dogs salivation triggered by the taste of food was an (a)   response?

13.

Pavlov's experiments: the dogs salivation triggered by the sound of a tone was a (a)   response

14.

Aquisition is the initial stage of learning where we are creating an association

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Contiguity: A stimulus has to occur (a)   a second before acquisition

16.

A condition where 1 stimulus is paired with another one but it's not as strong as the first association

a)

Classical conditioning

b)

Extinction

c)

Higher-order conditioning

d)

Acquisition

17.

Extinction: when a (a)   stimulus is no longer paired

18.

You try to make that stimulus connection again, but the conditioned response is less

a)

Neural Stimulus

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Generalization Stimulus

d)

Spontaneous Recovery

19.

Stimulus Generalization vs Stimulus Discrimination:

a)

No longer paired;

Paired again after time

b)

Similar response;

Different response

c)

1 stimulus paired;

2 stimuli paired

20.

Taste Aversion: (a)   of certain food following a period of illness

21.

Taste Aversion: Who did the colored water experiment?

(a)  

22.

Edward Thorndike's law of effect states that.......

a)

Consequences influence behavior

b)

Actions followed by desirable outcomes are repeated

23.

Learning through reward and punishment is called?

(a)  

24.

A procedure where you gradually guide toward good behavior

(a)  

25.

What are the 2 types of shaping?

a)

Successive approximation: Reward as you go

b)

Positive: add something good to increase behavior

c)

Negative: remove something good to increase behavior

d)

Chaining: break things down into small steps

26.

Reinforcement is to (a)   behavior

27.

Punishment is to (a)   behavior

28.

Positive vs Negative Reinforcement

a)

Add something good;

Take away something good

b)

Add something bad;

Take away something bad

29.

Primary or secondary Reinforcement: Something your body needs naturally

(a)  

30.

Primary or Secondary Reinforcement: It's paired with a consequence

(a)  

31.

Consequence to decrease behavior

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Punishment

c)

Shaping

32.

Positive Punishment: Add bad outcome to (a)   behavior

33.

Negative Punishment: Good outcome is (a)  

34.

Give a sucker every time 1st graders line up is an example of what?

a)

Taste aversion

b)

Positive punishment

c)

Schedules of reinforcement

d)

Higher-order conditioning

35.

what are the 2 types of reinforcement schedules?

a)

Positive reinforcement

b)

Partial reinforcement

c)

continuous reinforcement

d)

Negative reinforcement