Unit 4-1 Review - pgs. 223-231

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Dogs strapped into a harness and given repeated and unavoidable shocks

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developed learned helplessness.

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Children learn to fear spiders more easily than they learn to fear flowers. This best illustrates the impact of _______ on learning.

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biological predispositions

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After learning to fear a white rat, Little Albert responded with fear to the sight of a rabbit. This best illustrates the process of

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generalization.

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Little Albert developed a fear of rats after a white rat was paired with a loud noise. In this case, the loud noise was the 

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unconditioned stimulus.

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In classical conditioning, an organism forms associations between

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events that it does not control.

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In which form of learning is behavior said to be influenced by its consequences? Options: observational learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, latent learning.

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operant conditioning.

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The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was

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B.F. Skinner.

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The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called

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shaping.

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An event that increases the frequency of the behavior that it follows is a(n)

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reinforcer.

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Innately satisfying stimuli that fulfill biological needs are called ______ reinforcers.

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primary