UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
A type of learning that occurs when an organism learns to associate two or more stimuli with a
specific event. - CORRECT ANSWER - classical conditioning
A stimulus that naturally provokes a behavior or response. - CORRECT ANSWER -
unconditioned stimulus
A response to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs naturally and does not have to be learned. -
CORRECT ANSWER - unconditioned response
A stimulus for which there is no conditioned response. - CORRECT ANSWER - neural
stimulus
An originally neutral stimulus that stimulates a response due to its association to an
unconditioned stimulus. - CORRECT ANSWER - conditioned stimulus
A response that is elicited from a conditioned stimulus. - CORRECT ANSWER - conditioned
response
The initial stage of learning. - CORRECT ANSWER - acquisition
Learning process that occurs when a conditioned response is elicited from stimuli that is similar
to the conditioned stimulus. - CORRECT ANSWER - generalization
The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other similar stimuli. - CORRECT
ANSWER - discrimination
, Learning process that occurs when a conditioned stimulus no longer elicits a conditioned
response. - CORRECT ANSWER - extinction
Over the course of his famous conditioning experiments, what did Pavlov's dogs learn?
A.
They learned to eat food at the ring of a bell.
B.
They learned to ring a bell in order to get fed.
C.
They learned to eat when they began salivating.
D.
They learned to salivate at the sound of a bell. - CORRECT ANSWER - D.
___________ is the psychologist who conducted the "Little Albert" study in which he
conditioned an infant to fear white rats.
A.
B. F. Skinner
B.
John B. Watson
C.
Ivan Pavlov
D.
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER - B.
When planning a classical conditioning experiment, what is the goal of the researcher?
A.
to teach the subject to respond to a conditioned response
B.
to teach the subject to respond to the conditioned stimulus