Learning and Conditioning Quiz

The modification of behavior based on specific experiences.

Learning that certain events occur together.

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

<p>The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that unconditionally triggers a response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An originally irrelevant stimulus that triggers a conditioned response after association with an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The decrease in response resulting from repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The re-occurrence of conditioning after it had appeared to be extinct.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which two distinct but similar stimuli come to produce the same response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of associative learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thorndike's rule that behaviors which have positive outcomes tend to be repeated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A box in which a rat presses a lever and then receives food for it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer approximations of the desired behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adding something good to increase the likeliness of the behavior repeating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taking something away to increase the likeliness of the behavior repeating.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Things we can't live without; food, water, shelter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that becomes an effective reinforcer because of its association with a primary reinforcer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An operant conditioning principle in which only some responses made are followed by reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers