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The term for when higher animals, especially humans, learn without direct experience, by watching and imitating others.

What is observational learning?

100

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.

What is cognitive learning?

100
When you get in your car, you almost immediately fasten your seatbelt to quiet the loud beeping that is the reminder to fasten it. This is an example of what?

What is negative reinforcement?

100

The type of motivation that occurs as a result of a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake.

What is intrinsic learning?

100

Your pet tarantula is learning to use the tiny skateboard you bought him. Every time he ollies, you give him a snack. This would be known as a _________reinforcement schedule.

What is continuous?

200

The name of the researcher who was the pioneer of observational learning and created the Bobo Doll experiment.

Who is Albert Bandura?

200

Learning that certain events go together, and in classical conditioning or operant conditioning.

What is associative learning?

200

This type of reinforcement results in a slower acquisition of a response, but a much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement.

What is partial, or intermittent, reinforcement.

200

You are in a store and see the new iphone. There is nobody around, you really really want the phone, and are contemplating stealing it. The only thing stopping you is the threat of punishment if you are caught. This is an example of being _________________.

What is extrinsically motivated.

200

In classical conditioning, this is the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.

What is acquisition?

300

The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is known as _________.

What is modeling?

300

This is the term for the stimulus that does not elicit a response before conditioning.

What is the neutral stimulus?

300

The opposite of antisocial behavior.

What is prosocial behavior?

300

_________increases a behavior; ___________decreases it.

What is reinforcement; punishment?

300

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

What is spontaneous recovery?

400

Any event or situation that provokes a response is a _________.

Stimulus.

400

In classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (such as food in the mouth)

What is an unconditioned response?

400

The term for a mental representation of the layout of one's environment. 

What is a cognitive map?

400

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The Hornet's Nest rewards you with a free coffee with every 10 you have purchased. What type of schedule is this?

What is a fixed-ratio schedule?

400

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language is known as_________.

What is cognitive learning?

500

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences, is known as this.

What is operant behavior.

500

What is the term for adding a desired stimulus to strengthen a response, such as petting your dog when you call her to you?

What is positive reinforcement.

500

The term for learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it. For example, children watching a parent, but not demonstrating the learning until much later, as needed.

What is latent learning?

500

This type of schedule tends to produce slow, steady responding, like when you finally receive a message after repeatedly checking your social media account.

What is a variable-interval schedule?

500

Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.

What is the law of effect?

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