Chapter 6-Learning

Name: _______________________________ Date: _________________ Period: _______________

Instructions: Select the correct answer from the pair provided, then PRINT the correct answer in the
blank provided.
1. _________________ behavior takes away the unpleasant stimulus before it begins.
AVOIDANCE/ESCAPE
2. _________________ behavior takes away the unpleasant stimulus after it has already started.
AVOIDANCE/ESCAPE
3. ___________________________ showed that animals associated illness with food, even if the
illness was caused by something else ( a type of food aversion). GARCIA EFFECT/MERE
EXPOSURE EFFECT
4. When preferred behaviors can be used to reinforce unpreferred behaviors, it is known as the
___________________________. LAW OF EFFECT/PREMACK PRINCIPLE
5. If I tell you that you did a good job on your last test and you are a good student, this would be a
_______________________ reinforcer. PRIMARY/SECONDARY
Matching Instructions: Match the person with their claim to fame. WRITE the letter in the blank
provided.
A.

Classic Conditioning, Little Albert,

6.

_____ Albert Bandura

7.

_____ B.F. Skinner

8.

_____ Edward Thorndike

B.

Classical Conditioning, Dogs,

9.

_____ Edward Tolman

C.

Insight Learning. Published an early

10. _____ Ivan Pavlov

11. _____ John Watson
12. _____ Wolfgang Kohler

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textbook on Gestalt psychology

D.

Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps

E.

Law of Effect, Cats, Puzzle Boxes

F.

Observational Learning, Bobo Doll,

Theory of Reciprocal Determinism

G.

Operant conditioning theory,

experiments with operant chamber

Matching Instructions: Match the term with the definition.. WRITE the letter in the blank
provided.
13. _____ Chaining
14. _____ Classical Conditioning
15. _____ Cognitive Maps
16. _____ Habituation
17. _____ Insight Learning
18. _____ Instrumental Learning
19. _____ Long Term Potentiation
20. _____ Observational Learning
21. _____ Operant Conditioning
22. _____ Shaping

A. decrease in response to a stimulus due to

repetition
B. Associative learning in which a behavior
becomes more or less probable depending on
its consequences
C. believed to be the neural basis of learning.
D. The subject learns to give a response it already
knows to a new stimulus.
E. Learning that occurs when an active learner
performs certain voluntary behavior, and the
consequences determine the likelihood of its
recurrence
F. Form of cognitive learning in which new
responses are acquired after watching others
behavior
G. a type of learning or problem solving that
happens all-of-a-sudden through understanding
the relationships
H. Establishes a specific sequence of behaviors by
initially positively reinforcing each behavior in
a desired sequence and then later rewarding
only the completed sequence.
I. A mental image that an organism uses to
navigate through a familiar environment
J. Gradually molding a specific response by
reinforcing responses that come close to the
desired response.

Key:
1. Avoidance
2. Escape
3. Garcia
4. Premack Principle
5. Secondary
6. F
7. G
8. E
9. D
10.
B
11.
A
12.
C
13.
H
14.
D
15.
I
16.
A
17.
G
18.
B
19.
C
20.
F
21.
E
22.
J