Week 4 Vocabulary

How do humans adapt to their environment by repeating acts that bring rewards and avoid punishments?

• Learning
• Habituation
• Stimulus
• Behaviorism

What is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated or prolonged exposure, reflecting a form of learning in which the stimulus becomes less novel or salient over time?

• Generalization
• Stimulus
• Acquisition
• Habituation

What is a type of learning that involves forming associations or connections between stimuli and responses, such as classical and operant conditioning?

• Operant Behavior
• Associative Learning
• Classical Conditioning
• Respondent Behavior

What is any object, event, or experience that evokes a response from an organism, whether it's biological or psychological?

• Stimulus
• Learning
• Habituation
• Generalization

What is a behavior that is automatically elicited by a stimulus, such as reflexes or physiological responses?

• Conditioned Response
• Unconditioned Response
• Respondent Behavior
• Unconditioned Stimulus

What is a behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences, which in turn affect the likelihood of the behavior occurring again in the future?

• Operant Behavior
• Operant Behavior
• Classical Conditioning
• Neutral Stimulus

What is learning that involves mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving, as opposed to purely behavioral responses?

• Respondent Behavior
• Cognitve Learning
• Unconditioned Response
• Conditioned Response

What is a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response?

• Unconditioned Response
• Cognitve Learning
• Respondent Behavior
• Classical Conditioning

What is a psychological approach that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of environmental stimuli in shaping behavior, while often disregarding internal mental processes?

• Learning
• Stimulus
• Behaviorism
• Habituation

What is a stimulus that initially does not elicit a response, but can become a conditioned stimulus through association with an unconditioned stimulus?

• Unconditioned Response
• Neutral Stimulus
• Conditioned Response
• Unconditioned Stimulus