Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER - event that evokes a response
response - CORRECT ANSWER - behavior occurring as a result of stimulus
conditioned - CORRECT ANSWER - learned
unconditioned - CORRECT ANSWER - unlearned
classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER - associating 2 stimuli to anticipate events
operant conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER - associating a response to its consequence
associative learning - CORRECT ANSWER - linking two events together
acquisition - CORRECT ANSWER - when neutral stimulus is first paired with
unconditional stimulus
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWER - conditioned response decreases because
unconditioned response stimulus is no longer paired with the conditioned stimulus
discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to distinguish between similar stimuli and
the conditioned stimuli
operant behavior - CORRECT ANSWER - operates on environment to produce
rewarding\punishing stimuli
, positive reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - pleasurable stimulus presented
negative reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - unpleasant stimulus is removed
Continuous reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - reinforcing desired behavior every
time it occurs
Partial Intermittent reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - reinforcing only some of the
time
latent learning - CORRECT ANSWER - learning that is not demonstrated until one is
motivated to preform the behavior
intrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER - the desire to preform a behavior effectively
for its own sake
extrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER - behaving in certain ways to gain external
rewards or avoid threatened punishment
instinctive drift - CORRECT ANSWER - animals revert to biologically predisposed
adaptive associations
phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER - Smallest distinctive sound units "then= th,e,n"
morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER - Smallest units with meaning "Lead, er,s"
planning fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER - Things take longer than we think
prototypes - CORRECT ANSWER - Mental images or best example of category