Behaviorism Quiz 9 (25 MCQs)

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1. A defendant is harassed and tortured until he confesses. Th is is an example of:

2. The addition of something unpleasant

3. Anything that comes to represent a primary reinforcer, such as money bringing food.

4. In classical conditioning, the natural and unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is known as the:

5. Which of the following did Tolman not consider to be a cause of behavior?

6. What modality? Self directed quest for content

7. What is the first sign of communication that occur in children?

8. This is when newly acquired knowledge combines with prior knowledge to enrich the understanding of both concept.

9. Learning by watching others is known as?

10. Strengthening a response by following it with taking away or avoiding something unpleasant.

11. Ivan Pavlov's method of conditioning in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned, neutral stimulus

12. Positive reinforcement _____

13. Making an association between two events by repeated exposure

14. Which of B.F. Skinner's schedules of reinforcement is the most difficult to extinguish?

15. Tells us that the more an S-R (stimulus-response) bond is practiced the stronger it will become.

16. Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a tuning fork, the tuning fork was a(n)

17. Tim looks for worms under rocks. Every so often he is delighted to find one. Tim is being condtioned on a _____ schedule of reinforcment.

18. Behaviorists dismissed the value of

19. According to Watson, the three fundamental emotions displayed by infants were _____

20. What month and year was Jerome Bruner born?

21. Which of the following is a stimulus?

22. What modality? Multiple choice

23. We create our own knowledge of the world based on individual experiences.

24. To whom does Operat conditioning learning theory belong?

25. Which are the correct laws of learning by Edward Lee Thorndike.