UNL Psychology 181 Exam 3 Question
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Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps
us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction
Operant Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔changing behavior choices in response to
consequences
Cognitive Learning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔acquiring new behaviors and information
through observation and information, rather than
by direct experience
Neutral stimulus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a
stimulus which does not trigger a response
Unconditioned stimulus and response - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔a stimulus which triggers a
response naturally,
before/without any conditioning
,UNL Psychology 181 Exam 3 Question
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After Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔neutral stimulus becomes conditioned stimulus
(UR becomes CR and NS becomes CS)
Acquisition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The initial
stage of learning/conditioning
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
continued presentation of the CS without the UCS
will result in the gradual disappearance of the CR.
This phenomenon is known as
spontaneous recovery - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔a return of the conditioned response despite a
lack of further conditioning
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
tendency to have conditioned responses triggered
by related stimuli.
, UNL Psychology 181 Exam 3 Question
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Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
learned ability to only respond to a specific stimuli,
preventing generalization.
Thorndike's law of effect - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔behaviors followed by favorable consequences
become more likely, and behaviors followed by
unfavorable consequences become less likely.
Shaping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔guiding a
creature toward the behavior by reward behavior
that comes closer and closer to the desired
behavior
Continuous reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔(giving a reward after the target every single
time), the subject acquires the desired behavior
quickly.
In partial/intermittent reinforcement - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔(giving rewards part of the time),
the target behavior takes longer to be
& Answers 2025
Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps
us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction
Operant Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔changing behavior choices in response to
consequences
Cognitive Learning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔acquiring new behaviors and information
through observation and information, rather than
by direct experience
Neutral stimulus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a
stimulus which does not trigger a response
Unconditioned stimulus and response - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔a stimulus which triggers a
response naturally,
before/without any conditioning
,UNL Psychology 181 Exam 3 Question
& Answers 2025
After Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔neutral stimulus becomes conditioned stimulus
(UR becomes CR and NS becomes CS)
Acquisition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The initial
stage of learning/conditioning
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
continued presentation of the CS without the UCS
will result in the gradual disappearance of the CR.
This phenomenon is known as
spontaneous recovery - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔a return of the conditioned response despite a
lack of further conditioning
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
tendency to have conditioned responses triggered
by related stimuli.
, UNL Psychology 181 Exam 3 Question
& Answers 2025
Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
learned ability to only respond to a specific stimuli,
preventing generalization.
Thorndike's law of effect - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔behaviors followed by favorable consequences
become more likely, and behaviors followed by
unfavorable consequences become less likely.
Shaping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔guiding a
creature toward the behavior by reward behavior
that comes closer and closer to the desired
behavior
Continuous reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔(giving a reward after the target every single
time), the subject acquires the desired behavior
quickly.
In partial/intermittent reinforcement - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔(giving rewards part of the time),
the target behavior takes longer to be
