MCQs on the Learning

A child is conditioned to fear a furry, black cat. Soon she becomes fearful of any black, furry object. Her new response demonstrates

A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house. To extinguish this response, you would

The technique of using desensitization involves

To shape the behavior of their students, teachers employ

A punisher can be

Responses that are reinforced and tend to be repeated illustrate

If the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without reinforcement, we can expect

By a continuous reinforcement schedule, we mean that

Two principles of conditioning that have aided our learning and improved our adaptability as a species are

In operant conditioning, what is the relationship between events critical to learning and the response to be learned?

After pairing the CS and US in a series of conditioning trials, the organism learns to respond to the CS alone. This response is then called

Ivan Pavlov has been credited with the initial discovery of

Two schedules of reinforcement that produce the highest rates of response area.

A corporate pay policy comparable to a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement is

After a response has been extinguished, it will often reappear after a short time has passed. This is called

A dog that gets rewarded for the first bark it makes in each ten minute period is being reinforced on a __________ schedule of reinforcement

Classical conditioning is most often used to condition

Punishment is most effective in suppressing behavior when it is

Your niece has a temper tantrum in the store when she is shopping. If you buy her a toy you are

Jimmy helps his father put away the dishes after dinner. Jimmy’s father wants to increase the probability of this behavior and will be most successful by praising Jimmy