Can You Answer the Following General Psychology Terms Flashcards

Psycho Chapte r 5

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Elizabeth is given a 1000 raise after her last performance evaluation. Her raise is a:
Secondary reinforcer
On a variable-interval scheduale, reinforcement is given ______.
For the first correct response after varying amounts of time has passed
Some of the simplest and most basic learning, that involves the acquistion of fairly specific patterns of behaviors in the presence of well-defined stimuli is:
Conditioning
Which of the following statements about punishment is NOT true
Rewards should always immediatly follow punishment
IN THE EXPERIMENT WITH LITTLE ALBERT, THE CONDITIONED STIMULUS WAS____
THE RAT
A reinforcer that removes something unpleasant from a situation is a
Negative reinforcer
Learning is a process by which experience results in_____
Relatively permanent behavior change
Whcih of the following is a primary reinforcer
Water
The learning process studied in the Skinner box is known as
Operant conditioning
The process by which experience or practice results in a relatively permanent change in behavior or potententioal behavior is known as
Learning
When casey opens the closet door to get some dog food, the dog salivates. What is the conditioned stimulus in this example
The sound of the closet door opening
Learning that is not manifestned until some later time is called
Latent learning
Which of the following statements about learning is true?
The longest one
Pavlov is most closey associated with
Classical conditioning
A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ___ and thus ___ the probability of a response
Removed; increases