Quiz: Learning and behavior

1

An example of an elicited response is...
- A reflex
- Modal Action Patterns
- Emotions
- Some goal-directed behavior
- All of the above
2

What is a innate, genetically controlled series of specific motor programs that are triggered by a sign stimulus?
- Reflexes
- Modal Action Patterns
- Emotions
- Some goal-directed behavior
- All of the above
3

What is the process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior?
- Intuition
- Pattern recognition
- Learning
- Response imitation
- None of the above
4

Why do people do what they do?
- evolution/genetics
- physiology
- learning from environment
- all of the above
- none of the above
5

Who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in medicine for his studies in classical conditioning?
- Darwin
- Thoreau
- Pavlov
- Watson
- Raynor
6

What's the primary difference between classical and operant conditioning?
- Classical is general and operant is specific.
- Classical is for children and operant is for adults.
- Classical is involuntary and operant is voluntary.
- Classical is scientifically supported and operant is not.
- None of the above.
7

Who created puzzle boxes and discovered the Law of Effect?
- Aristotle.
- Galileo Galilei.
- Ivan Pavlov.
- Edward Thorndike.
- None of the above.
8

What law says that behavior achieving a desired outcome is more likely to be repeated?
- The Law of Averages.
- The Law of Repetual Motion.
- The Law of Effect.
- The Law of BS.
- None of the above.
9

Who bridged classical and operant conditioning with his studies on little Albert, claiming that the environment predicts ALL behavior?
- John Watson
- Ivan Pavlov
- Albert Einstein
- BF Skinner
- None of the above
10

What is the phenomenon whereby stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus also elicit a conditioned response?
- Learned behavior
- Generalization
- Behavioral Adaptation
- Discrimination
- None of the above
11

What is the phenomenon whereby stimuli are different enough from the conditioned stimulus and so not elicit a conditioned response.
- Learned behavior
- Generalization
- Behavioral Adaptation
- Discrimination
- None of the above
12

Who developed theories on operant behavior, saying that behavior is a lawful function of environmental variables?
- Aristotle
- BF Skinner
- John Watson
- Ivan Pavlov
- None of the above

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Learning and behavior

An example of an elicited response is...

What is a innate, genetically controlled series of specific motor programs that are triggered by a sign stimulus?

What is the process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior?

Why do people do what they do?

Who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in medicine for his studies in classical conditioning?

What's the primary difference between classical and operant conditioning?

Who created puzzle boxes and discovered the Law of Effect?

What law says that behavior achieving a desired outcome is more likely to be repeated?

Who bridged classical and operant conditioning with his studies on little Albert, claiming that the environment predicts ALL behavior?

What is the phenomenon whereby stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus also elicit a conditioned response?

What is the phenomenon whereby stimuli are different enough from the conditioned stimulus and so not elicit a conditioned response.

Who developed theories on operant behavior, saying that behavior is a lawful function of environmental variables?

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