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Classical Conditioning in Psychology

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What is the primary contribution of operant conditioning?

Therapeutic interventions for individuals with special needs, mental or emotional disabilities, and eating disorders (correct)

Understanding of human behavior in general

Development of observational learning

Understanding of punishment and reinforcement

What is the primary goal of punishment in operant conditioning?

To maintain a neutral behavior

To remove a positive reinforcer

To decrease a response (correct)

To strengthen a desired behavior

What is the result of intermittent reinforcement?

A response is never reinforced

A response becomes more prone to extinction

A response becomes more resistant to extinction (correct)

A response is always continuous

What type of reinforcement is necessary for shaping and establishing a new response?

Continuous reinforcement Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary reason why continuous reinforcement is an inefficient use of the reinforcer?

It increases the frequency of a response but is an inefficient use of the reinforcer Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of positive reinforcement?

Presentation of a rewarding stimulus Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the initial learning stage in Classical Conditioning, during which the CR comes to be elicited by the CS?

Acquisition Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the weakening of a CR in the absence of an US?

Extinction Signup and view all the answers

According to Skinner's theory of personality, what happens to behaviors that are punished?

They decrease Signup and view all the answers

What is the type of behavioral learning in which a neutral stimulus gains power to produce the same response previously elicited by another stimulus?

Classical Conditioning Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the reappearance of a CR without further conditioning?

Spontaneous Recovery Signup and view all the answers

What is the process of changing behavior in which reinforcement (or punishment) is contingent on the occurrence of a particular behavior?

Operant Conditioning Signup and view all the answers