UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
a stimulus that does not initially elicit any part of an unconditioned response - CORRECT
ANSWER - neutral stimulus
an event that leads to a certain predictable response usually without any previous training -
CORRECT ANSWER - unconditioned stimulus (US)
a reaction that occurs naturally and automatically when the unconditioned stimulus is presented,
in other words, a reflex - CORRECT ANSWER - unconditioned response (UR)
neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of trainin in which it has been paired
with an unconditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER - conditioned stimulus (CS)
the learned reation to a conditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER - conditioned response
(CR)
tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditional stimulus - CORRECT
ANSWER - Stimulus generalization
when an organism learns to respond to different stimuli in different ways - CORRECT
ANSWER - Stimulus discrimination
when the condition response dies out (when you stop pairing the condition stimulus with the
unconditioned stimulus) - CORRECT ANSWER - Extinction
condition response briefly reappears - CORRECT ANSWER - Spontaneous recovery
, money, praise, attention - CORRECT ANSWER - Secondary reinforce
food, water, - CORRECT ANSWER - Primary reinforce
do something and that generates a behavior - CORRECT ANSWER - Positive reinforcement
take something away (not punishment) and ignore - CORRECT ANSWER - Negative
reinforcement
consequence that strengthens a response -> makes it more likely to occur - CORRECT
ANSWER - Reinforcement
learning through voluntary responses and its consequences - CORRECT ANSWER - Operate
condition
to take away people's fears - CORRECT ANSWER - Systematic desensitization
people who have ____condition, acquire a condition fear by watching somebody respond
fearfully to a stimulus (doesn't always happen) - CORRECT ANSWER - vicarious
acquired fear of a certain situation that produces a negative emotion that others don't always
experience - CORRECT ANSWER - Condition emotional response
consequence that weakness a response -> makes it less likely to occur - CORRECT
ANSWER - Punishment
emphasizes the roles of thinking in social behavior and learning - CORRECT ANSWER -
Cognitive-social learning theory (Albert Bandura)