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How to Train a Brain: Crash Course Psychology #11 - Quizizz 2024

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered the founder of the behaviorist school of thought in psychology?

a)

Carl Jung

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

William James

2.

What did Ivan Pavlov study for nearly 20 years before earning Russia's first Nobel Prize?

a)

Human behavior

b)

Animal behavior

c)

Neuroscience

d)

Digestive system

3.

What did Pavlov observe about the dogs in his experiments with meat powder and neutral stimuli?

a)

They started drooling

b)

They became aggressive

c)

They started barking

d)

They became passive

4.

What is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors through experience called?

a)

Learning

b)

Conditioning

c)

Thinking

d)

Observation

5.

What is the term for when a subject links certain events, behaviors, or stimuli together in the process of conditioning?

a)

Observational learning

b)

Intuitive learning

c)

Associative learning

d)

Cognitive learning

6.

What is the unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment with dogs?

a)

The drooling

b)

The light

c)

The meat powder

d)

The bell sound

7.

What is the neutral stimulus in Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment with dogs?

a)

The meat powder

b)

The bell sound

c)

The drooling

d)

The light

8.

What is the term for the process of learning through associating our own behavior with consequences?

a)

Classical conditioning

b)

Operant conditioning

c)

Cognitive conditioning

d)

Behavioral conditioning

9.

What strengthens responses by giving rewards after a desired event?

a)

Negative reinforcement

b)

Positive reinforcement

c)

Punishment

d)

Extinction

10.

What increases a behavior by taking away an aversive or upsetting stimulus?

a)

Extinction

b)

Positive reinforcement

c)

Punishment

d)

Negative reinforcement

11.

What is the process called when the connection between a behavior and its reinforcement dwindles and the behavior stops?

a)

Acquisition

b)

Generalization

c)

Shaping

d)

Extinction

12.

What did B.F. Skinner design to demonstrate his concept of reinforcement?

a)

Learning chamber

b)

Behavioral box

c)

Skinner Box

d)

Operant chamber

13.

What is the term for the process of shaping a behavior through a series of successive approximations to the desired behavior?

a)

Reinforcement scheduling

b)

Generalization

c)

Shaping

d)

Conditioning

14.

What kind of reinforcement occurs when a behavior is reinforced after a specific number of responses?

a)

Fixed interval reinforcement

b)

Variable ratio reinforcement

c)

Fixed ratio reinforcement

d)

Variable interval reinforcement

15.

What kind of reinforcement occurs when a behavior is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses?

a)

Fixed interval reinforcement

b)

Variable ratio reinforcement

c)

Fixed ratio reinforcement

d)

Variable interval reinforcement