Focused on the Classics
Operant Systems N' You
Socially Distant Learning
100

Define Classical Conditioning

What is: A person’s or an animal’s old response to a prompt or stimulus becomes attached to a new prompt or stimulus 

100

Define Operant Conditioning

What is: Learning from the consequences of behavior. 

100

Define Social Learning

What is: Altering behavior by observing and imitating the behavior of others 

200

Identify what this is an example of: 

"After a week without taking the bus, Jimmy forgets to bring exact change the next time he tries to ride it, despite doing so every other time."

What is: Extinction

200

Identify the type of reinforcement used in this example: 

"A car beeps constantly until the passenger fastens their seatbelt. So, the passenger fastens their seatbelt to stop the beeping." 

What is: Negative Reinforcement

200

The two types of social learning.

What are: Modeling and cognitive learning

300
Define Behaviorism.

What is: The attempt to understand behavior and mental states in terms of relationships between observable stimuli and observable responses 

300

The two uses of negative reinforcement.

What are: Escape conditioning and Avoidance conditioning 

300

The three important elements behind learned helplessness. 

What are: stability, globality, and internality 


400

Identify what this is an example of: 

"Pete, who finally was able to report to work physically after the renovations, immediately set about cleaning his computer screen of smudges as he used to." 

What is: Spontaneous Recovery

400

Identify what this is an example of: 

"A person combines the simple behaviors of keeping their balance, pedaling their feet, and turning handles in the direction they want to go into the more complex behavior of riding a bike."

What is: Chaining
400

The three types of modeling.

What are: Mimicry, observational learning, and disinhibition. 

500

Identify what this is an example of: 

"Harry, who has a tendency of immediately answering his phone whenever it rings, hears a tune similar to his ringtone an immediately reaches for his phone"

What is: Generalization

500

The schedules that tend to provide the most consistent or strongest reinforcement to a behavior. 

What is: Partial schedules. 

500

The elements of behavior modification. 

What is: A combination of classic conditioning, operant conditioning, and social learning.