Ch.6 Test

Animals develop strategies

• based on positive and negative reinforcements they receive
• only when easier methods have been exhausted
• only after watching others develop strategies
• that help them solve mentally challenging problems

If Julie forms a cognitive map to her friend's house, this means that...

• Julie has a mental image of where the house is located
• Julie has to rely on social learning strategies in order to reach the house
• Julie remembers where the house is located because of past reinforcements
• all of the above are true
• only a & c are true

A dog does not step past an invisible boundary because he gets shocked each time. Which of the following is the unconditioned stimulus?

• the Shock
• the fear of the shock
• the boundary
• the fear from the boundary

According to Social Learning Theory, much of our behavior is learned through...

• Imitaion
• Observation
• Exposure to various stimuli
• All of these

Mary Carver Jones treated phobias by...

• flooding patients with the feared stimulus
• associating shock with the feared stimulus
• associating something pleasant with the feared stimulus
• teaching patients new cognitive skills

If Jacob's fear of spiders is extinguished, this means that his fear...

• becomes stronger
• becomes weaker
• leads to other fears
• leads to associations

In Watson's experiment with Little Albert, the conditioned stimulus was...

• A loud sound
• extreme fear
• the rat
• unknown

Two-year old Joey calls all females "Mama," Joey is demonstrating a LACK of...

• Shaping
• Discriminiation
• Extinction
• Generalization

In Classical Conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus produces a(n)...

• Operant Response
• Voluntary Response
• Learned Response
• Unlearned Response

Created a fear in a baby

• Jones

• Watson

• Bandura

• Pavlov