Psych 1010 Ch. 6 Review Q's
________ is when you take away a pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.
negative punishment
stimulus that does not initially elicit a response in an organism is a(n) ________.
neutral stimulus
Learning is best defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior that ________
occurs as a result of experience
Slot machines reward gamblers with money according to which reinforcement schedule?
variable ratio
Who proposed observational learning?
Albert Bandura
What is the correct order of steps in the modeling process?
attention, retention, reproduction, motivation
Which of the following is not an example of a primary reinforcer? a. food b. money c. water d. sex
b. money
In ________ the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired with the behavior
classical conditioning
Two forms of associative learning are ________ and ________.
classical conditioning; operant conditioning
In Pavlov's work with dogs, the psychic secretions were ________.
conditioned respones
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
kicked and threw the doll
The person who performs a behavior that serves as an example is called a ________.
model
Rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior is ________.
shaping
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 ________.
stimulus generalization
Extinction occurs when ________.
the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without being paired with an unconditioned stimulus