Development and Learning
When considering the medical perspective on abnormal behavior, which of the following examples best illustrates this approach to understanding psychological disorders?
Exploring how distorted thinking patterns contribute to social anxiety.
Diagnosing major depressive disorder based on an imbalance of neurotransmitters.
Identifying obsessive-compulsive behaviors as a result of past trauma.
Examining the role cultural expectations play in the manifestation of eating disorders.
The name of John Watson's social-learning experiment is:
Skinner operant chamber
Cat Puzzle Box
The Bobo Doll
Little Albert
What type of learning pairs two or more stimuli together so that one stimulus comes to elicit a response that was originally caused by another stimulus?
Observational Learning
Operant Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Latent Learning
How does spontaneous recovery relate to classical conditioning?
It's when an animal’s innate reflexes recover quickly even under extreme stress conditions.
It's when a previously extinguished conditioned response reappears after a rest period.
It's when an individual recovers from trauma through exposure to positive reinforcements.
It's when an individual spontaneously begins to respond to a new stimuli without prior conditioning.
What does discrimination in classical conditioning refer to?
The tendency for learned behavior to gradually revert back to its original form over time if not reinforced.
The ability to distinguish between different situations and respond appropriately based on past conditioning experiences.
Unfair treatment or bias against certain groups based on their characteristics or traits.
The process by which an organism learns that some behaviors are reinforced and others are not.
In Pavlov's experiments, dogs salivated to the sound of a tone alone after several pairings with food; if over time the tone was presented without food and salivation stopped, what process occurred?
Extinction
Habituation
Reinforcement
Negative punishment
What phenomenon best describes the gradual disappearance of a dog's salivation response to a tuning fork if the tuning fork is repeatedly presented without following with food?
Generalization
Spontaneous Recovery
Extinction
Discrimination

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What could challenge the broad application of classical conditioning theory to human learning?
The concept of unconditioned response.
The complexity of cognitive processes involved in human learning.
The process of extinction in classical conditioning.
The role of reinforcement in operant conditioning.
In Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment, how might substituting a flashing light for the bell as a conditioned stimulus affect an established salivation response in dogs?
The change would have no impact on conditioning since intensity rather than type of stimulus governs classical conditioning.
Dogs would immediately transfer their response from the bell to light without any further conditioning needed.
Using a different sensory modality would enhance conditioning due to increased alertness from visual stimuli.
It may result in slower acquisition of light as a new conditioned stimulus due to prior learning with another stimulus.
If a psychologist believes that a child's fear of dogs is due to an unconscious conflict related to being bitten by a dog as a toddler, which perspective are they likely adopting?
Behavioral
Psychodynamic
Evolutionary
Humanistic