Psych Learning

Negative reinforcement _______ the rate of a response; punishment ______ the rate of a response.

• Increases; decreases
• Decreases; increases
• Decreases; decreases
• Increases; does not affect

John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.

• discriminative stimulus
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned stimulus
• extinguished stimulus

With regards to ground beef, consumers respond more positively to an ad describing it as “75 percent lean” than to one referring to its “25 percent fat” content. This is an example of:

• The framing effect
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Overconfidence

Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long.  Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful.  After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated.  In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?

• tuna
• nausea
• mayo
• sight of any sandwich

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Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

For people who believe that others or outside forces (like luck or horoscopes) control their destiny is called?

• internal locus of control

• coping

• external locus of control

• self-control

Marie works in a dress factory where she earns $10 for each three dresses she hems. Marie is paid on a

• variable ratio
• fixed interval
• fixed ratio
• variable interval

Which of the following scenarios illustrates a variable interval schedule of reinforcement?

• Receiving a paycheck every two weeks
• Holding regular, but unpredictable, fire drills
• Earning a prize for every five books read in the library’s summer reading program
• Receiving five additional vacation days for each year of employment at a company

Which is the defintion of extinction?

• No longer an organism species exists

• Getting rid of an unconditioned response

• Diminishing a conditioned response

• Only answering to the stimulus

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In classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is put into the mouth.

• unconditioned response (UR)

• Conditioned response (CR)

• Unconditioned stimulus (US)

• Conditioned stimulus (CS)