Psych 150 Final Exam UC Berkeley UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Basic equation to explain behavior B = f(S)
Behavior is a function of the situation
Watson Anything can be learned: Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my
own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take anyone at
random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor,
lawyer, merchant chief, and even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents,
penchants, tendencies, abilities
Tabula Rasa Idea that we can be molded into any outcome (blank slate).
Life writes on our blank slates and changes us
Classical conditioning Is based on temporal contiguity (association by time)
Example: Pavlovian dogs and bells
Neutral Stimulus (CS = conditioned stimulus; coffee grinder) can elicit a response (R; wants
breakfast) because it becomes associated with a stimulus that automatically elicits
the response (US = unconditioned stimulus; food)
Before conditioning Food = unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Saliva= unconditioned response (UCR)
After conditioning Bell = conditioned stimulus (CS)
Elicited salvation = conditioned response (CR)
Principles of classical conditioning Generalization
Discrimination
Extinction
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Basic equation to explain behavior B = f(S)
Behavior is a function of the situation
Watson Anything can be learned: Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my
own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take anyone at
random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor,
lawyer, merchant chief, and even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents,
penchants, tendencies, abilities
Tabula Rasa Idea that we can be molded into any outcome (blank slate).
Life writes on our blank slates and changes us
Classical conditioning Is based on temporal contiguity (association by time)
Example: Pavlovian dogs and bells
Neutral Stimulus (CS = conditioned stimulus; coffee grinder) can elicit a response (R; wants
breakfast) because it becomes associated with a stimulus that automatically elicits
the response (US = unconditioned stimulus; food)
Before conditioning Food = unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Saliva= unconditioned response (UCR)
After conditioning Bell = conditioned stimulus (CS)
Elicited salvation = conditioned response (CR)
Principles of classical conditioning Generalization
Discrimination
Extinction
