Mizzou; Miller Psych 1000 Exam 2
Questions and All Correct Answers.
Learning - Answer A relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience
Classical Conditioning - Answer A type of learned response- the dog salivating after learning
and hearing the metronome
unconditioned response - Answer salivation elicited by food
Unconditioned Stimulus - Answer the food
Conditioned stimulus - Answer The clicking of the metronome
Conditioned Response - Answer The increased salvation that occurs after the conditioned
stimulus
acquisition - Answer The gradual formation of an association between the conditioned and
unconditioned stimuli (metronome and food)
Contiguity - Answer The stimuli occur together at this time
Extinction - Answer The dog no longer associates the metronome with food because every
time he hears a metronome it doesn't have food with it
Spontaneous Recovery - Answer The metronome again is now always associated with food
Stimulus generalization - Answer The dog hears a sound and it is associated with food and
salivating but if a dog hears a higher or lower pitched sound it will salivate less
Stimulus discrimination - Answer dogs detect subtle differences in color or tone
second-order conditioning - Answer The dog is shown both a shape and a metronome at the
time of food. Both the shape and metronome cause salivation.
, Phobia - Answer A fear that is out of proportion to the real threat
Fear conditioning - Answer Every time a mouse hears a sound it is shocked. The mouse is
now afraid of that sound
Freezing - Answer Keeping still
Counterconditioning - Answer Clinician exposing the patient to small doses of the feared
stimulus while having the client engage in an enjoyable task
Conditioned food aversion - Answer After eating McDonalds, he threw up thus learning to
avoid eating anything looking or smelling like McDonalds
Biological Preparedness - Answer Animals are genetically programmed to fear potentially
different things
Cognitive perspective - Answer Prediction and expetancy
The Rescorla-Wagner Model - Answer An animal learns an expectation that some predictors
are better than others
Orienting Response - Answer The unexpected appearance of the food will cause your dog to
pay attention to events in the environment that might have produced the food
Blocking effect - Answer A dog has learned that the smell of almonds are a good indicator of
food, so the dog will not look for other indicators
Occasion setter - Answer trigger for the CS
Operant or Instrumental Conditioning - Answer behaving in certain ways leads to rewards,
and not behaving in other ways keeps us from punishment
Reinforcer - Answer A stimulus that occurs after a response and increases the likelihood that
the response will be repeated
Shaping - Answer You are teaching your dog to roll over, so you give him a treat for doing
anything that resembles rolling over i.e. lying down. Once this behavior is established, you
reinforce behaviors more selectively
Questions and All Correct Answers.
Learning - Answer A relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience
Classical Conditioning - Answer A type of learned response- the dog salivating after learning
and hearing the metronome
unconditioned response - Answer salivation elicited by food
Unconditioned Stimulus - Answer the food
Conditioned stimulus - Answer The clicking of the metronome
Conditioned Response - Answer The increased salvation that occurs after the conditioned
stimulus
acquisition - Answer The gradual formation of an association between the conditioned and
unconditioned stimuli (metronome and food)
Contiguity - Answer The stimuli occur together at this time
Extinction - Answer The dog no longer associates the metronome with food because every
time he hears a metronome it doesn't have food with it
Spontaneous Recovery - Answer The metronome again is now always associated with food
Stimulus generalization - Answer The dog hears a sound and it is associated with food and
salivating but if a dog hears a higher or lower pitched sound it will salivate less
Stimulus discrimination - Answer dogs detect subtle differences in color or tone
second-order conditioning - Answer The dog is shown both a shape and a metronome at the
time of food. Both the shape and metronome cause salivation.
, Phobia - Answer A fear that is out of proportion to the real threat
Fear conditioning - Answer Every time a mouse hears a sound it is shocked. The mouse is
now afraid of that sound
Freezing - Answer Keeping still
Counterconditioning - Answer Clinician exposing the patient to small doses of the feared
stimulus while having the client engage in an enjoyable task
Conditioned food aversion - Answer After eating McDonalds, he threw up thus learning to
avoid eating anything looking or smelling like McDonalds
Biological Preparedness - Answer Animals are genetically programmed to fear potentially
different things
Cognitive perspective - Answer Prediction and expetancy
The Rescorla-Wagner Model - Answer An animal learns an expectation that some predictors
are better than others
Orienting Response - Answer The unexpected appearance of the food will cause your dog to
pay attention to events in the environment that might have produced the food
Blocking effect - Answer A dog has learned that the smell of almonds are a good indicator of
food, so the dog will not look for other indicators
Occasion setter - Answer trigger for the CS
Operant or Instrumental Conditioning - Answer behaving in certain ways leads to rewards,
and not behaving in other ways keeps us from punishment
Reinforcer - Answer A stimulus that occurs after a response and increases the likelihood that
the response will be repeated
Shaping - Answer You are teaching your dog to roll over, so you give him a treat for doing
anything that resembles rolling over i.e. lying down. Once this behavior is established, you
reinforce behaviors more selectively
