AP Psychology

__________ occurs when making a response removes an unpleasant event

Acquiring a fear of a light because you saw someone else getting shocked when the light came on is an example of

Which of the following types of reinforcement results in slower extinction but also slower learning?

• continuous reinforcement

• partial reinforcement

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

A slot machine rewards the player with coins after they try an unpredictable amount of times. This is an example of a..

• fixed-interval schedule

• variable-interval schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

After helping clean the dinner table, a child is rewarded with ice cream. This is an example of…

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

People are more inclined to fear heights and spiders compared to butterflies and flowers. This is due to...

• superstitious learning

• biological preparedness

• associative learning

• instinctive drift

An original neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response is known as a...

• unconditioned stimulus

• neutral stimulus

• conditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

In observational learning, people learn by observing others. They are more likely to learn if they observe those who are...

• similar to themselves

• admirable and successful

• cruel and inhumane

• sympathetic

What is the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses?

• Application

• Stimulus Generalization

• Stimulus Discrimination

• Extinction

During his experiments with dogs, the unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment was...

• no salivation

• a ringing tone

• salivation

• having food in the dog's mouth