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Psych100: Learning, Memory, Language & Thinking
Exam Questions with Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers) Graded A+
- Types of Learning - Correct Answer - Habituation
Classical Conditioning Instrumental/Operant Conditioning Observational Learning
Empiricist Beliefs - Correct Answer - learning involves the forming of simple associations, while more complex learning involves several associations layered upon each other. All learning depends on the same mechanisms and should be covered by the same principles
Learning Theorists Beliefs - Correct Answer - Learning should be a general phenomenon across all species
Learning Theory - Correct Answer - Conceptual framework describing how info is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world-view is acquired or changed and how knowledge and skills are retained
Habituation - Correct Answer - -simplest form of learning that occurs at all levels of the animal kingdom -Learning not to respond -A decrease in behavioral response after repeated exposure to a stimulus
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pg. 2 Learning to ignore the sound of the AC in a room because it is unimportant is an
example of: - Correct Answer - Habituation
Dishabituation - Correct Answer - an increase in a response because of a change in something familiar
The AC turns off and the sound you've grown used to turns off, so you notice the
change. this is an example of: - Correct Answer - dishabituation
Classical Conditioning - Correct Answer - a type of associative learning in which neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response
Unconditioned Response - Correct Answer - a response that does not have to be learned, such as a reflex
Unconditioned Stimulus - Correct Answer - a stimulus that elicits a response such as a reflex, without any prior learning
Ex: food causes salivation
Conditioned stimulus - Correct Answer - -a stimulus that elicits a response only after the learning has taken place -acts as a signal for upcoming events -learning is less likely to occur if the CS is simultaneous with or follows the US
Conditioned Response - Correct Answer - a response to a conditioned stimulus, a response that has been learned
Second Order Conditioning - Correct Answer - Conditioned stimulus becomes associated with another conditioned stimulus that was already associated with the unconditioned stimulus
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