INST 301 Exam 3 Questions with Answers
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What are the qualifications of learning? Answer: Change factors.
change in knowledge and change in behavior are signs of learning
What is the difference between experience vs maturation? Answer: maturation
results from growth
age vs wisdom
What are the three types of learning? Answer: behavioral
cognitive
social
What is associative learning? Answer: learning that certain events occur
together.
What are the pairing principles of associative learning? Answer: placement
proximity
principle of contiguity (timing factors of when two events occur)
What is classical conditioning? Answer: behavioral
the learning of INVOLUNTARY responses--pairing existing behavior with a
new stimulus
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a dog eating food everytime he hears a bell
stimuli and response
What are the two different stimuli? Answer: classical conditioning
unconditioned stimulus- a stimulus that naturally triggers a response (ex:
smelling food)
conditioned stimulus- pairing a stimulus with a previously neutral event to
produce a response (ex: ringing a bell for dog)
What are the two different responses? Answer: classical conditioning
unconditioned response- a natural response to a stimulus
conditioned response- a learned response to neutral stimulus (ex: dog getting
hungry when it hears a bell)
What is operant conditioning? Answer: association made between a behavior
and a consequence (good or bad)
antecedents and consequences
What are antecedents? Answer: operant conditioning