Week 4 Knowledge Practice

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Across
  1. 3. ____ theory: the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
  2. 8. (2 words) in the presence of others, improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks, and worsened performance on difficult tasks.
  3. 11. an event that tends to decrease the behavior that it follows
  4. 12. (2 words) an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.
  5. 15. (2 words) a pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced
  6. 17. an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
  7. 18. the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
  8. 19. (2 words) the tendency to favor our own perceived group.
  9. 20. (2 words) the tendency for any given person present to be less likely to give aid if other people are present.
Down
  1. 1. (2 words) in classical conditioning, an originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.
  2. 2. the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
  3. 4. (2 words) in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (such as food in the mouth)
  4. 5. (2 words) increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing an aversive stimulus.
  5. 6. any event or situation that evokes a response.
  6. 7. an unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members. It generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.
  7. 9. (2 words) a culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations.
  8. 10. adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
  9. 13. (2 words) in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
  10. 14. in classical conditioning, the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
  11. 16. (2 words)_____ ______ theory: the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.