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Learning & Memory
Define: define the words below to the best of your ability. (3 pts)
Psychology:
Vocabulary: Choose the term from the list below that best matches each of the following statements. (1 pts each)
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Amnesia
Conditioned Stimulus
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Encoding
Memory
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Modeling
Negative Reinforcement
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Punishment
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_____ 1. Rewarding successively closer approximations of a desired behavior.
_____ 2. The process by which information is encoded, stored and retrieved.
_____ 3. A reinforcer that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
_____ 4. Severe memory loss caused by brain injury, shock, fatigue, illness or even repression.
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A stimulus that produces an innate response.
Main Idea Review: Four choices are given for each statement or question below. Select the best answer. (1 pt per question)
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_____ Which of the following is the most accurate definition of learning?
a. The result of a variety of experiences that temporarily shape behavior.
b. An enduring change in an organism’s behavior based on experience.
c. The sole result of classical and operant conditioning.
d. The association of experiences due to their occurrence in close proximity.
2.
_____ After having been struck by a car, a dog now exhibits fear responses every time a car approaches. The dog also exhibits a fear
response to the approach of a bus, a truck, a bicycle, and even a child’s wagon. The dog has undergone a process of:
a. Stimulus discrimination
b. Stimulus generalization
c. Spontaneous recovery
d. Positive reinforcement
3.
_____ Through reinforcement, pigeons are taught to peck at paintings by a Monet artist. The fact that pigeons do not peck at the paintings of
DaVinci, Picasso, or Grandma Moses represents:
a. Modeling
b. Reflexive response
c. Stimulus generalization
d. Stimulus discrimination
4.
_____ Every time you buy ice cream from the Yellow Brick Road ice cream parlor, you get your over-the-rainbow card stamped. Once you
purchase ten items, you get your next item free. The Yellow Brick Road ice cream parlor has you on which of the following
reinforcement schedules?
a. Variable-ratio
b. Variable-interval
c. Fixed-ratio
d. Fixed-interval
5.
_____ Operant behaviors are different from those in Classical Conditioning, because in classical conditioning the behaviors are:
a. Cognitive
b. Involuntary
c. Reinforced
d. Voluntary
Vocabulary: Choose the term from the list below that best matches each of the following statements. (1 pts each)
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Albert Bandura
B.F. Skinner
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Edward Thorndike
Edward Tolman
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Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
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John Garcia
_____ 1. This behaviorist was concerned with the relationship between reinforcement and learning, and commonly used pigeons, rats, and other
animals to demonstrate how primary and secondary reinforcers change behavior.
_____ 2. Conducted the “Little Albert” experiment with Rosalie Rayner to demonstrate classical conditioning phenomena.
_____ 3. Latent learning psychologist who used rats to prove that rats, and thereby humans, can learn without necessarily expressing their knowledge.
_____ 4. Psychologist who first studied operant conditioning, and whose “law of effect” stated behavior is more likely to reoccur if reinforced.
_____ 5. Russian dietitian who mistakenly discovered classical conditioning while studying the digestion of dogs.
_____ 6. Classical conditioning psychologist who subjected animals to food laced radiation to study taste aversions.
_____ 7. Observational learning theorist who had children observe authority figures abusing dolls and carrying out various violent actions and later
observed children abusing similar dolls and carrying out similar violent actions.
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