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WorksheetsAssociative Learning
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
If a sea slug on repeated occasions receives an electric shock just after being squirted with water, its protective withdrawal response to a squirt of water grows stronger. This best illustrates
spontaneous recovery.
associative learning.
observational learning.
operant conditioning.
habituation.
By learning to associate a squirt of water with an electric shock, sea snails demonstrate the process of
negative reinforcement.
spontaneous recovery.
classical conditioning.
observational learning.
operant conditioning.
Seals in an aquarium will repeat behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This best illustrates
respondent behavior.
operant conditioning.
observational learning.
latent learning.
spontaneous recovery.
Who would most likely agree with the following statement concerning the field of psychology? “Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods.”
Albert Bandura
John Garcia
John B. Watson
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
The first experimental studies of associative learning were conducted by
John B. Watson.
B. F. Skinner.
Albert Bandura.
Ivan Pavlov.
Edward Deci.
If a ringing bell causes a dog to salivate because the bell has been regularly associated with food in the mouth, the UR is the
ringing bell.
salivation to the ringing bell.
food in the mouth.
salivation to the food in the mouth.
dog's hunger.
To assess whether Mrs. Webster had Alzheimer's disease, researchers conditioned her to blink in response to a sound that signaled the delivery of a puff of air directed toward her face. In this application of classical conditioning, the sound was a
US.
UR.
CS.
CR.
NS.
The law of effect refers to the tendency to
learn associations between consecutive stimuli.
learn in the absence of reinforcement.
repeat behaviors that are rewarded.
lose intrinsic interest in an over-rewarded activity.
enhance conditioning using strict responses.
Escape from an aversive stimulus is a ________ reinforcer.
positive
negative
secondary
partial
delayed
Tennis instruction that reinforces soft, short lobs over the net before attempting to reinforce hard, long, cross-court hits best illustrates the process of
shaping.
modeling.
discrimination.
delayed reinforcement.
insight learning.
Using rewards to bribe people to engage in an activity they already enjoy is most likely to inhibit
respondent behavior.
continuous reinforcement.
latent learning.
spontaneous recovery.
intrinsic motivation.
Corbett refuses to take reasonable precautions to protect his health because he believes good health is just a matter of luck anyway. Corbett's attitude best illustrates
the Barnum effect.
an external locus of control.
self-serving bias.
the self-reference phenomenon.
reciprocal determinism.
The process by which people learn a sense of personal control or personal helplessness has been most strongly emphasized by the
psychoanalytic perspective.
trait perspective.
humanistic perspective.
social-cognitive perspective.
psychodynamic perspective.
The perception that one can strongly influence the outcome and destiny of one's own life exemplifies
the self-reference phenomenon.
the spotlight effect.
the reality principle.
an internal locus of control.
reciprocal determinism.
Mirror neurons most clearly provide us with the capacity for
spontaneous recovery.
intrinsic motivation.
intermittent reinforcement.
imitation.
insight learning.
After prolonged exposure to television violence, viewers became more indifferent to violence when later viewing a brawl, whether on TV or in real life. This finding best illustrates
desensitization.
latent learning.
spontaneous recovery.
extinction.
instinctive drift.
Skinner is to shaping as Bandura is to
punishing.
extinguishing.
discriminating.
modeling.
generalizing.
