FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSY 1003

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSY 1003

C6 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Preparedness

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Species specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others.

Question 2: Extinction

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The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.

Question 3: Continuous reinforcement

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Reinforcing every instance of a designated response.

Question 4: Operant conditioning

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A form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences. Deals with the modification of 'voluntary behavior'.

Question 5: Stimulus generalization

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The phenomenon that occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus responds in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus.

Question 6: Skinner box

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A small enclosure in which an animal can make a specific response that is systematically recorded while the consequences of the response are controlled.

Question 7: Pavlovian conditioning

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A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. See Classical conditioning.

Question 8: Variable ratio (VR) schedule

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A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given after a variable number of nonreinforced responses.

Question 9: Rescorla

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Scientist who found a relation between signals when he found that a predictive value of a CS is an influential factor governing classical conditioning.

Question 10: Resistance to extinction

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In operant conditioning, the phenomenon that occurs when an organism continues to make a response after delivery of the reinforcer for it has been terminated.

Question 11: Fixed ratio (FR) schedule

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A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses.

Question 12: BF Skinner

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Operant Conditioning guy. Made 'skinner boxes' and put mice in them and had the mice press buttons.

Question 13: Behavioral contract

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A written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behavior modification program.

Question 14: Intermittent reinforcement

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A reinforcement schedule in which a designated response is reinforced only some of the time.

Question 15: Higher order conditioning

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A type of conditioning in which a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus.

Question 16: Positive reinforcement

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Reinforcement that occurs when a response is strengthened because it is followed by the presentation of a rewarding stimulus.

Question 17: Spontaneous recovery

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In classical conditioning, the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Question 18: Cumulative recorder

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A graphic record of reinforcement and responding in a Skinner box as a function of time.

Question 19: Trial

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In classical conditioning, any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.

Question 20: Conditioned stimulus (CS)

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A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.

Question 21: Reinforcement

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An event following a response that strengthens the tendency to make that response.

Question 22: Ivan Pavlov

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Classical Conditioner, did the thing with the dogs salivating.

Question 23: Conditioned Fear

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Fear, Being scared.

Question 24: The Law of Effect

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Thorndike, found The Law of Effect, which states that responses followed by positive outcomes are repeated, whereas those followed by negative outcomes are not.

Question 25: Escape learning

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A type of learning in which an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation.

Question 26: Schedule of reinforcement

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A specific presentation of reinforcers over time.

Question 27: Discriminative stimuli

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Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response.