Operant Conditioning
Learning
States of Consciousness
Classical Conditioning
Memory
100
Reinforcement schedule in which all correct responses are reinforced.
What is a continuous reinforcement schedule?
100
Reinforcement of simple steps, leading to a desired complex behavior.
What is shaping?
100
Your brain waves are being monitored in a sleep laboratory. If you are in deep sleep less than an hour after falling asleep, what brain waves will be detected? a. beta b. alpha c. theta d. delta
What is d delta waves?
100
John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the ________ in his study. a. discriminative stimulus b. counterconditioning stimulus c. conditioned stimulus d. unconditioned stimulus
What is c conditioned stimulus?
100
Assumes that the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory—in a series of three stages.
What is the information processing theory? 

(encoding, storage, and retrieval)

200
A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned her room. What is the cookie in this example? a. punisher b. positive reinforcer c. negative reinforcer d. conditioned response
What is b positive reinforcer?
200
Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning, she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad. Over several weeks, she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys, immediately before leaving the house. Which phenomenon of learning best describes the dog's behavior? a. classical conditioning b. innate learning c. punishment by removal d. instinctive drift
What is a classical conditioning?
200
Jim is 56 years old and slightly overweight. His wife reports that he snores loudly. What sleep disorder seems to fit Jim's symptoms? a. narcolepsy b. sleep apnea c. sleep terror d. REM sleep behavior
What is b sleep apnea?
200
The reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after a time delay.
What is spontaneous recovery?
200
A stimulus for remembering.
What is a retrieval cue?
300
The removal of an attractive stimulus after a response to decrease the likelihood that behavior will reoccur.
What is punishment by removal?
300
A type of learning that that involves the sudden perception of relations among various parts of the problem. Also known as "Ah-ha" learning.
What is insight learning?
300
Chad dreamed that he was trying to climb out of a bathtub. The hidden or symbolic meaning of being born (the water being the waters of birth and the bathtub his mother's womb) is referred to as ___________. 
What is latent content?
300
When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the UCS, the CR will "die out" in a process called ________. a. CR fading b. extinction c. habituation d. generalization fading
What is b extinction?
300
You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using? a. condensed b. permanent c. maintenance d. elaborative
What is d elaborative?
400
Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20. What schedule of reinforcement is being used? a. a variable-ratio schedule b. a fixed-ratio schedule c. a fixed-interval schedule d. a continuous schedule
What is a b fixed ratio schedule?
400
The idea that learning occurs and is stored up, even when behaviors are not reinforced, is called ________. a. insight b. latent learning c. placebo learning d. innate learning
What is b latent learning?
400
Drugs that speed up the functioning of the nervous system are called ________. a. stimulants b. depressants c. narcotics d. psychogenics
What is a stimulants?
400
In Pavlov's classic experiments, the repeated presentations of the metronome along with the food formed the ________ step of the classical conditioning process. a. acquisition b. testing c. extinction d. spontaneous recovery
What is a acquisition?
400
A type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events.
What is episodic memory?
500
The use of operant conditioning techniques to bring about desired changes in behavior.
What is behavior modification?
500
A researcher places dogs in a cage with metal bars on the floor. The dogs are randomly given electric shocks and can do nothing to prevent them or stop them. Later, the same dogs are placed in a cage where they can escape the shocks by jumping over a low hurdle. When the shocks are given, the dogs do not even try to escape. They just sit and cower. This is an example of ________. a. learned helplessness b. avoidance learning c. aversive conditioning d. vicarious learning
What is a learned helplessness?
500
Physical dependence is characterized by what two things?
What is tolerance and withdrawal?
500
A tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar, but not identical to, a conditioned stimulus.
What is generalization?
500
The memory system into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently and is organized in terms in terms of related meanings and concepts.
What is long-term memory?
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