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