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WorksheetsHow to Train a Brain: Crash Course Psychology #11 - Quizizz 2024
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who is considered the founder of the behaviorist school of thought in psychology?
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
Ivan Pavlov
William James
What did Ivan Pavlov study for nearly 20 years before earning Russia's first Nobel Prize?
Human behavior
Animal behavior
Neuroscience
Digestive system
What did Pavlov observe about the dogs in his experiments with meat powder and neutral stimuli?
They started drooling
They became aggressive
They started barking
They became passive
What is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors through experience called?
Learning
Conditioning
Thinking
Observation
What is the term for when a subject links certain events, behaviors, or stimuli together in the process of conditioning?
Observational learning
Intuitive learning
Associative learning
Cognitive learning
What is the unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment with dogs?
The drooling
The light
The meat powder
The bell sound
What is the neutral stimulus in Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment with dogs?
The meat powder
The bell sound
The drooling
The light
What is the term for the process of learning through associating our own behavior with consequences?
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Cognitive conditioning
Behavioral conditioning
What strengthens responses by giving rewards after a desired event?
Negative reinforcement
Positive reinforcement
Punishment
Extinction
What increases a behavior by taking away an aversive or upsetting stimulus?
Extinction
Positive reinforcement
Punishment
Negative reinforcement
What is the process called when the connection between a behavior and its reinforcement dwindles and the behavior stops?
Acquisition
Generalization
Shaping
Extinction
What did B.F. Skinner design to demonstrate his concept of reinforcement?
Learning chamber
Behavioral box
Skinner Box
Operant chamber
What is the term for the process of shaping a behavior through a series of successive approximations to the desired behavior?
Reinforcement scheduling
Generalization
Shaping
Conditioning
What kind of reinforcement occurs when a behavior is reinforced after a specific number of responses?
Fixed interval reinforcement
Variable ratio reinforcement
Fixed ratio reinforcement
Variable interval reinforcement
What kind of reinforcement occurs when a behavior is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses?
Fixed interval reinforcement
Variable ratio reinforcement
Fixed ratio reinforcement
Variable interval reinforcement
