Theories of Learning

Who believes that human learning is done selectively by observing and instilling into memory the behavior of others?

• Jean Piaget
• B. F. Skinner
• Albert Bandura
• Lawrence Kohlberg

What does it mean by positive reinforcement ?

• Reward

• Punishment

• Dessert

• Reward and punishment

Teacher Nurin praises her students with encouraging words such as "Good job!" and gives her students stickers as rewards. What kind of reinforcement has been applied in her classroom?

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

Who is the behaviorist that introduce classical conditioning?

• Jean Piaget

• F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Erik Erikson

Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. “Throughout the course of three distinct phases, the associated stimulus is known as __ and learned behaviour is known as __.”

• conditioned response, conditioned stimulus

• conditioned stimulus, conditioned response

• stimulus conditioning, response conditioning

• response conditioning, stimulus conditioning

Behavior: Molly finishes her homework

Consequence: She gets to go out with friends

• + reinforcement

• -- reinforcement

• + punishment

• -- punishment

ANY EVENT OR SITUATION THAT EVOKES A RESPONSE IS KNOWN AS?

• ACQUISITION

• STIMULUS

• REINFORCMENT

• SHAPING

IN CLASSICAL CONDITIONING, A STIMULUS THAT ELICITS NO RESPONSE BEFORE CONDITIONING

• ACQUISITION

• EXTINCTION

• NEUTRAL STIMULS

• SHAPING

SKINNER'S PIGEON OR RAT BOX EXPERIMENTS ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF CONDITIONING?

• CLASSICAL

• OPERANT

PAVLOV'S DOG SALIVATING EXPERIMENT IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF CONDITIONING?

• CLASSICAL

• OPERANT