Pavlov
Animal Studies
Human Experiments
Abrevs.
Alliterated Answers
100

This type of stimulus acquires a conditioned response after repeated pairings with an unconditioned stimulus

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

100

CAT-H uses this technique to modify behavior

Negative reinforcement

100

According to Mellstrom and Johannesson, women who were offered money to donate blood were ___ likely to donate than women who were not offered money

less

100

S-R stands for this

Stimulus-Response

100

Use of the _____ helped motivate inactive, elderly, schizophrenic patients, as they were rewarded with a high probability behavior after working towards completing a task

Premack Principle

200

This phenomenon refers to the re-emergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response following the passage of time

Spontaneous recovery

200

When experimenters showed monkeys a banana, covered it up, and then uncovered lettuce (rather than the banana), monkeys were enraged due to violation of this 

Expectancy

200

According to Lepper, Greene and Nisbett, when children were rewarded for drawing, they ended up spending less time doing so when they had free time, due to a reduction in this

Intrinsic motivation

200

VR stands for this

Variable Ratio

200

Tolman’s study of rats which explored a maze without reward, and then, once rewarded, showed a drastic drop in errors, demonstrates an example of this

Latent Learning

300

One CS being used to condition another CS is an example of this type of conditioning

Second order conditioning

300

Raccoons trained instrumentally to place a token in a bank to get food, who instead spend time licking and chewing the token, are demonstrating this type of behavior

Sign tracking

300

In the Klossek et. al. study, researchers examined whether or not children were goal directed, by seeing if they would choose stimuli with devalued outcomes. Authors claim that goal direction action emerges during this age range

2-3 years old

300

CAT stands for this

Constructional Aggression Treatment

300

Choosing to watch three movies and pull an all nighter with friends the day before an important exam is an example of

Delay Discounting

400

Pavlov thought this phenomenon, in which two stimuli are presented close together in time, was responsible for the formation of associations between the CS and US

Temporal contiguity

400

Demonstrating the dear enemy effect, little owls do not respond to their neighbor’s hoot in a usual location, but do respond to either a new hoot, or a hoot from a new location due to lack of this type of priming

Retrieval-generated priming

400

According to Carter et. al., this can serve as a safety cue; people with panic disorder who had this with them, had reduced stress and catastrophic feelings during a CO2 challenge than those who did not have this

A (trusted) friend

400

AVN stands for this

Anticipatory Vomiting and Nausea

400

When individuals are rewarded for running with 4 pellets, and then rewarded for running with 16 pellets, we would expect their running speed to increase; this is considered a(n) ______

Elation Effect

500

Pavlov trained dogs to salivate at the sound of this conditioned stimulus 

A metronome

500

Two pigeons were trained with a white triangle on a red background, which signaled food could be earned. When the red background and white triangle were presented separately, one pigeon responded more to the background, while one pigeon responded more to the triangle, demonstrating they were under different ____

Stimulus controls

500

In the Wolf et. al. case study, researchers worked with a child with autism who initially wouldn’t wear his glasses. They used a shaping procedure, rewarding this

Successive approximations

500

CER stands for this

Conditioned Emotional Response

500

Pigeons pecking at a dot instead of running to food is an example of this phenomena, in which the CS takes on the “functions” of the US

Stimulus Substitution