PSY 108 7a) Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning

In psychology, the term conditioning refers to:

learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses

This is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

spontaneous recovery

What happened after Watson classically conditioned Little Albert to fear a tame white rat?

Generalization occurred: Albert responded with fear to other furry animals and fuzzy objects

In Watson and Rayner's experiment with Little Albert the conditioned stimulus (CS) used to produce fear was:

a white rat

John has been a coffee drinker since he started college three years ago. He finds that anytime he smells coffee when he enters a nearby Starbucks he starts to feel more alert and awake even before he takes his first sip of coffee. This is an example of:

classical conditioning

People and animals learn the association between two stimuli through _____. People and animals learn the association between a behavior and a consequence through _____.

classical conditioning; operant conditioning

Tamika's cat learned to press a lever so more food would be poured into her food bowl. Tamika's roommate's kitten watched the older cat perform this behavior and within a month the kitten was performing it as well. This is an example of:

observational learning

People and animals learn about the consequences of behavior through:

operant conditioning