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Sample Behavioral Psychology Quiz Questions
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This Russian physiologist discovered that dogs could learn to salivate at the sound of a bell after it was repeatedly paired with food.
Difficulty: Easy- Ivan Pavlov
- B.F. Skinner
- John Watson
- Albert Bandura
This procedure involves presenting two neutral stimuli together before either is paired with an unconditioned stimulus, allowing one to later elicit a conditioned response.
Difficulty: Medium- Higher-order conditioning
- Sensory preconditioning
- Occasion setting
- Configural learning
This phenomenon demonstrates that the timing of the CS relative to the US produces distinct neural circuits and different types of conditioned responses.
Difficulty: Hard- Response topography
- Occasion setting
- Temporal encoding
- Conditioned timing
This type of learning occurs when a behavior is strengthened because it is followed by a pleasant consequence.
Difficulty: Easy- Punishment
- Positive reinforcement
- Extinction
- Habituation
This law states that organisms distribute their responses among alternatives in proportion to the reinforcement received from each.
Difficulty: Medium- Matching law
- Premack principle
- Law of Effect
- Weber's law
This phenomenon shows that post-training changes in the value of one element of a compound can affect responding to the other element.
Difficulty: Hard- Overshadowing
- Blocking
- Sensory preconditioning
- Mediated conditioning
This term describes the gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.
Difficulty: Easy- Generalization
- Discrimination
- Extinction
- Acquisition
This phenomenon occurs when an extinguished conditioned response returns simply because the organism is tested in a different context than where extinction occurred.
Difficulty: Medium- Spontaneous recovery
- Reinstatement
- Renewal
- Disinhibition
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