Learning:Test Review

  1. Young David is playing on the playground one day when a bully approached him and beat him up. Now young David feels afraid every time he sees a playground.

Identify each component in this case of classical conditioning:

  1. UCS
  2. UCR
  3. CS
  4. CR
  1. Provide an example for each term below using the situation above. (#1)
  2. Extinction:
  3. Spontaneous recovery:
  4. Generalization:
  5. Discrimination:
  6. Secondary conditioning:
  1. What type of stimulus is described in question 1? What theorist pioneered this type of classical conditioning and what was the name of his experiment?
  1. Describe the Operant conditioning consequence described in each statement below.
  2. Melissa tells her daughter that if she makes her bed every day this week, she will take her to the movies on Friday.
  3. David is told that if his grades do not improve, he will lose his car.
  4. Adrienne screams loud and furious in the grocery store because she wants a lollipop. Finally, exhausted, her young mother places one in her mouth.
  5. Billy is sentenced to 100 hours of community service for speeding and reckless driving.
  6. Mr. Cochrane’s students performed so well on the test that he omitted them from the spacing effect quiz two weeks later.
  1. Identify what schedule of reinforcement is applied in each description below.
  1. David has been promised a weekly allowance by his parents, but they actually only pay approximately every three weeks.
  2. Melissa has a system at home where she is paid an allowance of 15 dollars for every time she vacuums the floors, dusts the furniture and cleans her room.
  3. David gets paid when he makes a sale for approximately every 10th house he visits.
  4. Homeboy Cochrane gets paid once a month.
  1. Who pioneered the research of operant conditioning described in numbers four and five?
  1. Identify any two principles that classical and operant conditioning share.
  1. Identify any three fundamental viewpoints used by Watson and Skinner to argue that behaviorism should be the central basis of study in psychology.
  1. Whose pioneering research on the law of effect laid the foundations for operant conditioning?
  1. What is the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers?
  1. To what extent have token economies been successful in shaping behavior?
  1. Whose “Bobo Doll” experiment pioneered research on the influence of observational learning? Was it characterized as anti-social, or pro-social modeling?
  1. What type of learning is not specifically demonstrated in behavior?
  1. What type of learning is characterized as an “aha” moment, or sudden understanding?