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AP Psychology Unit 5 Learning
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Learning
Ans: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to
experience
Habituate
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Ans: To become used to
Associative Learning
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Ans: Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two
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stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences
(as in operant conditioning).
Classical Conditioning (Pavlov)
Ans: A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli
and anticipate events
Behaviorism (Watson and Skinner)
Ans: The view that psychology should study behavior and not mental
processes (and who holds it?)
Unconditioned Response (UR)
Ans: In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring
response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when
food is in the mouth.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Ans: In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally—naturally
and automatically—triggers a response.
Conditioned Response (CR)
Ans: In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously
neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Ans: In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after
association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a
conditioned response.
Acquisition
Ans: In classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral
stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus
begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the
strengthening of a reinforced response.
Higher-Order Conditioning (Second-Order Conditioning)
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Ans: A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning
experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often
weaker) conditioned stimulus. For example, an animal that has learned
that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the tone
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and begin responding to the light alone. (Also called second-order
conditioning.)
Extinction
Ans: The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical
conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a
conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a
response is no longer reinforced.
Spontaneous Recovery
Ans: The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned
response
Generalization
Ans: The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli
similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
Discrimination
Ans: In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between
a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned
stimulus
Learned Helplessness
Ans: The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human
learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
AP Psychology Unit 5 Learning
Questions and Answers (100% Correct
Answers) Already Graded A+
Learning
Ans: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to
experience
Habituate
© 2026 Assignment
Ans: To become used to
Associative Learning
Guru01 - Stuvia
Ans: Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two
Expert
stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences
(as in operant conditioning).
Classical Conditioning (Pavlov)
Ans: A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli
and anticipate events
Behaviorism (Watson and Skinner)
Ans: The view that psychology should study behavior and not mental
processes (and who holds it?)
Unconditioned Response (UR)
Ans: In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring
response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when
food is in the mouth.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Ans: In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally—naturally
and automatically—triggers a response.
Conditioned Response (CR)
Ans: In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously
neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)
, 2
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Ans: In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after
association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a
conditioned response.
Acquisition
Ans: In classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral
stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus
begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the
strengthening of a reinforced response.
Higher-Order Conditioning (Second-Order Conditioning)
© 2026 Assignment
Ans: A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning
experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often
weaker) conditioned stimulus. For example, an animal that has learned
that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the tone
Guru01 - Stuvia
Expert
and begin responding to the light alone. (Also called second-order
conditioning.)
Extinction
Ans: The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical
conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a
conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a
response is no longer reinforced.
Spontaneous Recovery
Ans: The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned
response
Generalization
Ans: The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli
similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
Discrimination
Ans: In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between
a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned
stimulus
Learned Helplessness
Ans: The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human
learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
