Psy 201 Exam 2 Test Questions and
Answers 2025-2026 All Correctly
Solved.
Associative learning - Answer linking or pairing ideas or experience together
Unconditioned stimulus - Answer food
Unconditioned response - Answer salivation
Conditioned stimulus - Answer bell (expecting food)
Conditioned response - Answer salivation
Cognitive learning - Answer higher level thinking; knowing and understanding
Reflex - Answer
Classical Conditioning - Answer
The ABCs of Behaviorism - Answer A = Antecedent: events that come before a behavior
B = Behavior (or response): anything observable and identifiable
C = Consequence: effects that follows a behavior
Edward Thorndike - Answer Instrumental learning,
Thorndike's research:
Animals problem solve using: - Answer trial and error-
used puzzles boxes with cats, graphed frequency of behaviors as a learning curve
, Reinforcement - Answer increases the probability of a behavior
Two types of reinforcement: - Answer 1. Primary-unconditioned
-food, water, sleep, sex
2. Secondary-conditioned
-money, praise, stickers
Punishment - Answer decreases probability of a response
Punishment is most effective when: - Answer immediate and predictable
Research on punishment shows that effects are not ________________ in changing behavior -
Answer less effective than reinforcement
Four categories of operant conditioning: - Answer 1. positive reinforcement
2. positive punishment
3. negative reinforcement
4. negative punishment
3 Principles of Operant Conditioning: - Answer 1. extinction
2. generalization
3. discrimination
extinction - Answer How does extinction occur under the operant paradigm? Be able to
relate this to examples.
occurs if responses stop producing reinforcement
generalization - Answer the more similar a new stimulus is to an originally reinforced
stimulus, the more likely is the same response
Answers 2025-2026 All Correctly
Solved.
Associative learning - Answer linking or pairing ideas or experience together
Unconditioned stimulus - Answer food
Unconditioned response - Answer salivation
Conditioned stimulus - Answer bell (expecting food)
Conditioned response - Answer salivation
Cognitive learning - Answer higher level thinking; knowing and understanding
Reflex - Answer
Classical Conditioning - Answer
The ABCs of Behaviorism - Answer A = Antecedent: events that come before a behavior
B = Behavior (or response): anything observable and identifiable
C = Consequence: effects that follows a behavior
Edward Thorndike - Answer Instrumental learning,
Thorndike's research:
Animals problem solve using: - Answer trial and error-
used puzzles boxes with cats, graphed frequency of behaviors as a learning curve
, Reinforcement - Answer increases the probability of a behavior
Two types of reinforcement: - Answer 1. Primary-unconditioned
-food, water, sleep, sex
2. Secondary-conditioned
-money, praise, stickers
Punishment - Answer decreases probability of a response
Punishment is most effective when: - Answer immediate and predictable
Research on punishment shows that effects are not ________________ in changing behavior -
Answer less effective than reinforcement
Four categories of operant conditioning: - Answer 1. positive reinforcement
2. positive punishment
3. negative reinforcement
4. negative punishment
3 Principles of Operant Conditioning: - Answer 1. extinction
2. generalization
3. discrimination
extinction - Answer How does extinction occur under the operant paradigm? Be able to
relate this to examples.
occurs if responses stop producing reinforcement
generalization - Answer the more similar a new stimulus is to an originally reinforced
stimulus, the more likely is the same response
