Learning Theory Quiz

2. Adding something to decrease behavior
3. was elected president of the American Psychological Association; won the Outstanding Lifetime Contribution in 2004
7. A real or fictional character displays the behavior online, on TV, in a book, etc.
8. Reinforcement happens after a an action is done in a random amount of time
11. Used dogs as experimental animals
13. When a conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented but is never followed by the unconditioned stimulus with which it was formerly associated, its ability to elicit conditioned response gradually decreases, and may fade completely.
15. When the reinforcement happens to occur purely due to chance factor at the time the individual made a particular response
18. The behavior is explained or described.
20. Originally a writer, but later became a research psychologist
21. Bandura's theory that individuals will copy and imitate others
22. personality is no more (or less) than a collection of learned behavior patterns
23. a form of learning in which capacity of eliciting a response is transferred from one stimulus to another

1. those which are elicited by the stimuli of the environment that are well-known and can be identified easily.
4. An individual is observed acting out or showing the behavior.
5. Adding something to increase behavior
6. Removing something to increase behavior
9. Removing something to decrease behavior
10. Reinforcement happens after a an action is done in a chosen amount of time
12. Reinforcement happens after a random number of task is completed
14. The type of conditioning where a neutral stimuli is presented to elicit a response over a longer period of time (Think Pavlov)
16. Reinforcement happens after a chosen number of task is completed
17. if the same extinguished stimulus is then presented again at a later time, its capacity to evoke the response is found to reappear.
19. those behaviors which are not caused by any specific stimuli of the environment.