Chapter 08

Test Review Sheet

1. Define learning.
2. Who wrote the book The Behavior of Organisms?
3. Describe some ways that conditioning might be used in the professional world?
4. Who was Albert Bandura? What is he most know for? What did his “Bobo Doll” demonstrate the power of?
5. list some superstitious behaviors. How did they come about?
6. Be able to apply the following terms to situations that are provided (for now just define or provide an example of each)
1. Observational learning
2. Classical conditioning
3. Operant conditioning
4. Negative punishment
5. positive punishment
6. negative reinforcement
7. positive reinforcement
8. extinction
9. spontaneous recovery
10. primary reinforcers
11. secondary reinforcers
12. unconditioned stimuli
13. unconditioned response
14. conditioned stimuli
15. conditioned response
16. neutral stimulus
17. shaping
7. Finish this sentence, “most behaviors are ________”.
8. What are Skinner and Pavlov most know for?
9. what is higher order conditioning?
10. what is the primary difference between a punishment and a reinforcer?