Learning and Language Review

A relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience or practice is called...

(S/N #1)

• Tabula Rasa

• Learning

• Determinism

• Acclimation

Behaviorists are mostly concerned with...

(S/N #1)

• Cognition

• Decision Making

• Linguistics

• Observable Behavior

Our environment shapes every aspect of who we were, are, and will become

(S/N #1)

• Environmental Determinism

• Law of Effect

• Acquisition

• Associative Learning

This Russian psychologist discovered Classical Conditioning

(S/N #1)

• Noam Chomsky

• Albert Bandura

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

The process that leads to a gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response

(S/N #1)

• Contiguity

• Chaining

• Extinction

• Shaping

This famous psychologist is known as the founder of the modern behavioral perspective

(S/N #2)

• Albert Bandura

• B.F. Skinner

• Edward Thorndike

• Noam Chomsky

A type of learning in which voluntary behavior is modified by subsequent consequences

(S/N #2)

• Operant Conditioing

• Cognitive Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Social Conditioning

'Any behavior followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated...' best describes which option below

(S/N #2)

• Positive Punishment

• Avoidance Behavior

• Law of Effect

• Stimulus Generalization

Negative Reinforcement can sometimes be an Avoidance Behavior. Which option below best illustrates an Avoidance Behavior?

(S/N #2)

• Making a mess and leaving it for someone else to clean

• Doing the dishes to avoid being nagged by parents

• Stealing candy from your younger brother or sister

• Your parents tell you not to touch the stove because it is hot but you do it anyway

'The shorter the time between the stimulus and the consequence, the quicker and stronger the association will be' is known as...

(S/N #2)

• Contiguity

• Chaining

• Shaping

• Acquisition