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What is Psychology? Pastoino, Doyle-Portillo 2013
Chapter 5 - How Do We Learn?
Question 1
Learning is
C. a relatively permanent change in behavior, or the potential for behavior, that results from experience.
Question 2
Edward Tolman studied rats running through mazes and found that
C. rats that had been allowed to wander through the maze without rewards learned the maze more quickly than normal once they began to be rewarded for reaching the end.
Question 3
Thea gets paid at her job every two weeks. Thea is being reinforced for her working on a_____ schedule of reinforcement.
C. fixed interval
Question 4
The orienting reflex describes
Selected Answer: A. the attention we give to novel stimuli.
A. the attention we give to novel stimuli.
Question 5
Classical conditioning is generally strongest when the neutral stimulus is presented _____ the unconditioned stimulus by a few _____.
A. before; seconds
Question 6
When animal trainers use operant conditioning techniques to slowly condition a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the new desired behavior, the specific name for this is
D. shaping.
Question 7
Positive reinforcement and negative punishment are
B. two different ways of increasing a behavior.
Question 8
Continuous schedules of reinforcement are to _____, as partial schedules of reinforcement are to _____.
C. faster extinction rates; slower extinction rates
Question 9
Which of the following responses can be classically conditioned in humans? Selected Answer: A. Fear
A. Fear
Question 10
When a conditioned stimulus no longer produces a conditioned response, _____ has occurred.
B. extinction
Question 11
Habituation describes the
Selected Answer: B. decrease in attention we give to repeated stimulation.
B. decrease in attention we give to repeated stimulation.
Question 12
Classical conditioning is to _____, as operant conditioning is to_____. Selected Answer: A....