This is the stimulus that when presented to the learner no response is made.
What is a neutral stimulus (NS)?
100
These are the two elements of operant conditioning.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
100
This is illustrated by our ability to learn by witnessing the behavior of others.
What is observational learning?
100
This psychologist experimented on a 9-month old baby to establish that fear can be conditioned?
Who is John Watson?
100
This is when the learned behavior is slowly being forgotten by the learner due to a lack of stimulus / reinforcement.
What is extinction?
200
In Pavlov's experiments, the taste of good triggered salivation in the dog. This was the food in the dog's mouth.
What is a unconditioned stimuli?
200
This refers to the tendency that behaviors that are rewarded are more likely to reoccur.
What is the law of effect?
200
This schedule of reinforcement provides a reward after a specific amount of time has passed.
What is fixed-interval schedule?
200
This physiologist discovered classical conditioning by accident while experimenting on dog's saliva?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
200
This is the ability to learn to associate one stimuli but not others to a certain response / behavior.
What is generalization?
300
During the conditioning phase, WHAT has to be presented before WHAT?
What is neutral stimulus before the unconditioned stimulus (NS before the US)?
300
This is an event that decreases a behavior that precedes it.
What is punishment?
300
What are the four elements of observational learning?
What is attention, desire, memory, and imitation?
300
This psychologist was the founder of observational learning, experimenting with the famous bobo doll and groups of children.
Who is Albert Bandura?
300
A prisoner is harassed and tortured until he shares top secret information. This is an example of...
What is punishment?
400
If a tone causes a dog to salivate because it has regularly been associated with food, the tone is called...
What is a conditioned stimulus?
400
Dogs are conditioned to salivate to stimulation to the ears. They also begin to salivate when stimulated on other parts of their bodies. This illustrates what?
What is generalization?
400
These provide a biological basis for observational learning.
What are mirror neurons?
400
This psychologist experimented with pigeons and taught them to guide missiles during WWII?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
400
The desire to engage in an activity for the sake of its own enjoyment involves...
What is intrinsic motivation?
500
This provides evidence that a CR is not completely eliminated during extinction.
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
This schedule of reinforcement provides a reward after a certain number of responses have been made by the learner.
What is fixed-ratio schedule?
500
An example of this is when a child can tell a family member how to get home from his or her school.
What is a cognitive map?
500
This psychologist experimented on rats to lead to the discovery of taste aversion?
Who is John Garcia?
500
According to B.F. Skinner, human behavior is controlled primarily by...