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