Multiple Choice Questions

Acquiring new habits best illustrates the process of
  • Learning
  • Cognitive Learning
  • Extinction
  • Conditioned Response
Children often learn to associate pushing a vending machine button with the delivery of a candy bar. This best illustrates the process underlying
  • Unconditioned stimulus
  • Associative learning
  • Operant conditioning
  • Conditioned response
John B. Watson considered himself to be a(n)
  • Discrimination
  • Behaviorist
  • Learning
  • Generalization
The acquisition of mental information by observing events, watching others, or through language is called
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Learning
  • Cognitive learning
  • Conditioned response
The reappearance, after a time lapse, of an extinguished CR is called
  • Discrimination
  • Extinction
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Generalization
Makayla developed an intense fear of flying five years ago when she was in a plane crash. The fact that today she can again fly without distress indicates that her fear has undergone
  • Generalization
  • Discrimination
  • Spontaneous Recovery
  • Extinction
The first experimental studies of associative learning were conducted by
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Learning
  • Behaviorist
  • Pavlov
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, infants develop a fear of books after books are repeatedly presented with a loud noise. In this fictional example, the loud noise is a(n)
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Unconditioned stimulus
  • Generalization
  • Conditioned response
Male Japanese quail became sexually aroused by a red light that was repeatedly associated with the presentation of a female quail. The sexual arousal triggered by the red light was a
  • Unconditioned stimulus
  • Extinction
  • Conditioned response
  • Associative learning
Psychologists define learning as the process of
  • An enduring change in behavior due to experience
  • The presentation of food in the dog's mouth
  • Conditioned stimulus; Unconditioned stimulus
  • Conditioned response
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