PSY 2012 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● learning
Answer: a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for
behavior due to experience
●● classical conditioning
Answer: a type of learning in which associations are formed between
two stimuli that occur sequentially in time
mazwald
●● operent conditioning
Answer: a type of learning in which association are formed between
behaviors and their outcomes
skinner
●● observational learning
Answer: learning that occurs when one organism watches the actions of
another organism also known as social leaning or modeling
●● extinction
, Answer: the reduction of a learned response.
●● spontaneous recovery
Answer: during extinction training, the response reappearance of
conditioned responses after periods of rest (reappearance of CR
following periods of rest between extinction training sessions)
●● imitation
Answer: copying behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and
spontaniously
●● memory
Answer: the ability to retain knowledge
●● endcoding
Answer: the transformation of information from one form to another
●● storage
Answer: the retention of information
●● retrieval
Answer: the recovery of stored information
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● learning
Answer: a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for
behavior due to experience
●● classical conditioning
Answer: a type of learning in which associations are formed between
two stimuli that occur sequentially in time
mazwald
●● operent conditioning
Answer: a type of learning in which association are formed between
behaviors and their outcomes
skinner
●● observational learning
Answer: learning that occurs when one organism watches the actions of
another organism also known as social leaning or modeling
●● extinction
, Answer: the reduction of a learned response.
●● spontaneous recovery
Answer: during extinction training, the response reappearance of
conditioned responses after periods of rest (reappearance of CR
following periods of rest between extinction training sessions)
●● imitation
Answer: copying behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and
spontaniously
●● memory
Answer: the ability to retain knowledge
●● endcoding
Answer: the transformation of information from one form to another
●● storage
Answer: the retention of information
●● retrieval
Answer: the recovery of stored information
