Practice Quiz 7 - Learning and Behaviorism

Who is credited with laying the foundation for the study of classical conditioning?

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  B.F. Skinner

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  Sigmund Freud

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  Ivan Pavlov

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  Carl Rogers

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  Carl Jung

What is the term for learning where behavior is strengthened or weakened by the addition or reinforcement or punishment?

•  Classical Conditioning

•  Operant Conditioning

•  Observational Learning

•  Insight Learning

•  Vicarious Conditioning

Which psychologist is best known for the "Law of Effect"?

•  Sigmund Freud

•  John Watson

•  Edward Thorndike

•  Jean Piaget

•  Abraham Maslow

In operant conditioning, what term describes adding a stimulus to increase a behavior?

• Positive Punishment

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Negative Punishment

• Extinction

What term describes the process by which a conditioned response is eliminated?

• Habituation

• Sensitization

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Shaping

What is the term for a neutral stimulus that, after being repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus, evokes a conditioned response?

• Reinforcer

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Generalized Stimulus

Which psychologist is famous for the "Little Albert" experiment?

• Sigmund Freud

• John Watson

• Carl Rogers

• Ivan Pavlov

Which term describes learning by watching and imitating others?

• Observational Learning

• Habituation

• Sensitization

• Social Learning

• Cognitive Learning

What term is used for a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without learning?

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Discriminative Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Generalized Stimulus

• Neutral Stimulus

Which psychologist is most associated with the study of operant conditioning?

• Sigmund Freud

• John Watson

• B.F. Skinner

•  Abraham Maslow

• Albert Bandura