PSY 110 Exam 2 Questions With Correct Answers

PSY 110 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
Answers


Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A type of learning
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through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with
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another


Unconditioned Response (UR) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A response that
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is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without prior learning
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EX) salivation, contraction of pupil, eyeblink
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Unconditioned Stimulus (US) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A stimulus that
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elicits a specific unconditioned response without prior learning
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EX) food, loud noise, light in eye, puff of air in eye
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A neutral stimulus
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that, after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus, becomes
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associated with it and elicits a conditioned response
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EX) a tone
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,Conditioned Response (CR) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The learned
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response that comes to be elicited by a conditioned stimulus as a result
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of its repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus
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EX) a tone
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Higher-Order Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Conditioning that
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occurs when conditioned stimuli are linked together to forma series of
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signals


"Little Albert" and classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Watson concluded that conditioned fears "persist and modify
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personality throughout life" | |




Operant Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A type of learning in
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which the consequences of behavior are manipulated so as to increase
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or decrease the frequency of an existing response or to shape an
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entirely new response | |




Operant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A voluntary behavior that accidentally
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brings about a consequence
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Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Anything that follows a response
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and strengthens it or increases the probability that it will occur
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, Punisher - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Anything that follows a response and
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weakens it or decreases the probability that it will occur
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Shaping - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An operant conditioning technique
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that consists of gradually molding a desired behavior by reinforcing any
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movement in the direction of the desired response, thereby gradually
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guiding the responses toward the ultimate goal
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Skinners Box - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A soundproof chamber with a
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device for delivering food to an animal subject; used in operant
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conditioning experiments |




Successive Approximations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A series of steps,
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each of which is more similar to the final desired response
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Extinction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-In operant conditioning, the
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weakening and eventual disappearance of the conditioned response as
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a result of the withholding of reinforcement
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Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-In operant conditioning, the | | | | | | |



tendency to make the learned response to a stimulus similar to that for
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which the response was originally reinforced
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