Unit 6 Learning Quiz

What do psychologists call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?

• conditioning

• instincts

• learning

• reflexes

Which of the following is an example of instinct?

• baby turning its head to suckle when its cheek is stroked

• believing that nudity is wrong

• a teacher demonstrating algebra to students

• a toddler who is being toilet trained by her parents

Birds migrating, cats chasing prey, sea turtles moving toward the ocean immediately after birth, and a joey (baby kangaroo) moving to its mother's pouch immediately after birth are all examples of ________.

• conditioning

• instincts

• learning

• reflexes

Which of the following is an example of a reflex?

• deciding that you want to be a parent

• jumping for joy when your favorite team wins a championship

• addressing your elders as 'sir' or 'ma'am' because that is how you were raised

• the pupil of your eye contracting in the presence of bright light

Classical and operant conditioning are forms of ________ learning.

• associative

• instinctive

• processual

• reflexive

In Pavlov's classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with the word ________.

• learned

• instinctive

• reflexive

• reactive

In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between a ________.

• conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned response

• neutral response and a conditioned response

• neutral stimulus and a neutral response

• neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

Stanley was diagnosed with lymphoma and had to undergo several months of chemotherapy. During this time he would become very nauseated as a side effect, and unintentionally came to associate that nausea with his favorite grilled cheese sandwich. Now, years later, even thinking about a grilled cheese sandwich makes him sick. In this example, Stanley's nauseous reaction to a grilled cheese sandwich is the ________.

• unconditioned stimulus

• unconditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

• conditioned response

You begin to salivate when you smell your favorite cake in the oven, but not when you smell the gross scent of a dirty diaper. This is an example of ________.

• operant conditioning

• stimulus discrimination

• stimulus generalization

• higher-order conditioning

You are a big fan of your grandmother's chocolate chip cookies. Just the smell of them causes you to feel hungry. One night she is making chocolate chip oatmeal almond cookies, a variation of her usual recipe. You smell the baking cookies and even though it is different than her usual cookie scent, you still suddenly feel hungry for a treat. This demonstrates the classical conditioning principle of ________.

• extinction

• stimulus discrimination

• stimulus generalization

• spontaneous recovery