Psychology Ch. 6 Review Q's

Who proposed observational learning?

Albert Bandura

What is the correct order of steps in the modeling process?

Attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation

In Bandura's Bobo doll study, when the children who watched the aggressive model were placed in a room with the doll and other toys, they did what?

Kicked and threw the doll

The person who performs a behavior that serves as an example is called a what?

Model

__________ is when you take away a pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.

Negative punishment

A stimulus that does not initially elicit a response in an organism is a what?

Neutral stimulus

In Watson and Rayner's experiments, Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, and then he began to be afraid of other furry white objects. This demonstrates what?

Stimulus generalization

Which of the following is NOT an example of a primary reinforcer? a. food b. money c. water d. sex

b. money

Learning is best defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior that ________.

occurs as a result of experience

Rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior is __________.

shaping

In Pavlov's work with dogs, the psychic secretions were ________.

conditioned responses

What are two forms of associative learning?

Classical and operant conditioning

Slot machines reward gamblers with money according to which reinforcement schedule?

Variable ratio

When does extinction occur?

When the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without being paired with an unconditioned stimulus

Which of the following is an example of a reflex that occurs at some point in the development of a human being? a. child riding a bike b. teen socializing c. infant sucking on a nipple d. toddler walking

c. infant sucking on a nipple

In _________ the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired with the behavior.

classical conditioning