Psych Quiz 5!

Who founded the school of behaviorism?

Watson

When slight differences in the form of conditioned stimuli still produce the same conditioned response, the learning phenomenon of ________ is occurring.

generalization

The first time you pick up your pet hamster it recoils in fear, but after a week of handling, your hamster is not bothered anymore. What change came over your hamster through the simple act of repetitive handling?

habituation

Watson's study of Little Albert was one of the first studies on what clinical phenomenon?

phobias

If getting $1 for every correct answer on this test makes you study harder, being given $1 would be a form of:

positive reinforcement

Conditioned taste aversions demonstrate:

A. that certain stimuli are easier to associate than others.

The famous ''Little Albert'' study conducted by John Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrated that:

C. it was possible to classically condition an emotional reaction to a previously neutral stimulus.

If you trained a rat to fear a flashing light by pairing it with a painful electric shock, what would be the conditioned stimulus?

flashing light

What is a conditioned response?

a response that has been learned

In order for Pavlovian learning to occur, with what must the conditioned stimulus have been paired?

an unconditioned stimulus

Money is NOT a primary reinforcer because:

b. it does not satisfy a biological need.

Pavlovian conditioning is also referred to as:

classical conditioning

The process by which an environmental stimulus and a behavior are connected is known as:

conditioning

In the lead up to WWII, B.F. Skinner contributed to war effort by...

d. training pigeons to pilot missiles toward enemy vehicles and building.

Negative reinforcement and negative punishment are similar in that both:

involved the removal of a stimulus

Learning without direct reinforcement, but that can be demonstrated when reinforcement is available, is known as:

latent learning

Food is considered a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is a secondary reinforcer.

money

If having your license suspended for driving too fast makes you less likely to speed when you get it back, the suspension is an example of:

negative punishment

What type of behavior did B.F. Skinner consider to be somewhat synonymous with concepts of the "mind?"

stimulus generalization

In his original studies of digestion, Pavlov placed food on a dog's tongue to make the dog salivate. In this situation, the dog's salivating was a(n):

unconditioned response