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Can you answer these questions about classical and operant conditioning?
1. Who outlined the behaviorist school of thought in his 1913 paper "Psychology As the
Behaviorist Views It?"
A. Edward Thorndike
B. John B. Watson
C. Ivan Pavlov
D. B.F. Skinner
2. What is a reinforcer?
A. Any event that strengthens or increases a response
B. Something the individual finds pleasant
C. Anything that decreases a response
D. An incentive
3. Which of the following is true of learning?
A. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior
B. Learning only occurs through conditioning
C. Learning is a passive process
D. All of the above
4. In classical conditioning, the natural and unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus
(UCS) is known as the:
A. Unconditioned stimulus
B. Unconditioned response
C. Conditioned response
D. Conditioned stimulus
5. What is a punishment?
A. An unpleasant event or stimulus
B. Any undesired event or stimulus that weakens or decreases a behavior
C. A disagreeable consequence
D. Something the individual dislikes
6. What learning process did B.F. Skinner describe?
A. Classical conditioning
B. Modeling
C. Operant conditioning
D. Observational learning
7. While Ivan Pavlov is famous for his contributions to psychology, he was actually a:
A. Botonist
B. Linguist
C. Zoologist
D. Physiologist
8. Negative reinforcement increases the strength or frequency of a response by _____ an
aversive stimulus.
A. Increasing
B. Decreasing
C. Removing
D. Ignoring
9. Learning may be defined as a ______ change in behavior that occurs as the result of
experience.
A. Relatively permanent
B. Sensitization
C. Fixed
D. Continuous
10. Habituation involves learning about a _____.
A. Multiple stimuli
B. Single response
C. Single stimulus
D. Multiple response
11. If the doctor always tells a child that “it won’t hurt, when in fact it sometimes does, the child
has no danger or safety signals and may become terribly anxious whenever in the doctor’s office.
This implies…
A. Learning can be fearful
B. Children do not respond to motivation
C. Doctors are ineffective motivators
D. Predictability is also important for emotional reactions
12. Punishment is the _____ of reinforcement.
A. Opposite
B. Principle
C. Basis
D. Equivalent
13. Skinner box is also known as...
A. Simple latch
B. Operant chamber
C. Omission training
D. Black box
14. A hungry cat is placed in a cage whose door is held fast by a simple latch and a piece of fish
is placed just outside the cage. If the cat has learned to open the latch to obtain food and repeats
that behavior, it is known as..
A. Law of effect
B. Stimulus aversion
C. Reinforcement
D. Habituation
15. If leaving your apartment removes you from an unpleasant environment, then the time you
spend away from your apartment will increase referring to..
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Positive punishment
D. Negative punishment
16. When the dog is trained to catch a ball, you can give the animal a food reinforcer each time it
approaches the ball until finally the dog mouths and grabs the ball referring to..
A. Sensitization
B. Omission training
C. Shaping
D. Extinction