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For Each Description, Match the Form of Learning

Question 7

Matching

For each description, match the form of learning. There is only one answer per example.

Premises:

Responses:

You are walking down the hallway and your friend jumps out and scares you.

Habituation

Every time you feed your cat, you use a clicker. Over time, whenever your cat hears a clicker it runs to the kitchen for dinner.

Operant conditioning

Whenever you do something correct you are rewarded with some chocolate (which you find rewarding).

Sensitization

Your grandparent is having some trouble remembering things. They take a test that shows them a pattern and then they have to match the pattern with an array of similar patterns.

Pavlovian conditioning

Your younger sibling taps you on the shoulder over and over and over again until you eventually do not feel it.

Delayed matching to sample

Premises:

You are walking down the hallway and your friend jumps out and scares you.

Every time you feed your cat, you use a clicker. Over time, whenever your cat hears a clicker it runs to the kitchen for dinner.

Whenever you do something correct you are rewarded with some chocolate (which you find rewarding).

Your grandparent is having some trouble remembering things. They take a test that shows them a pattern and then they have to match the pattern with an array of similar patterns.

Your younger sibling taps you on the shoulder over and over and over again until you eventually do not feel it.

Responses:

Habituation

Operant conditioning

Sensitization

Pavlovian conditioning

Delayed matching to sample

Correct Answer:

Premises:

Responses:

You are walking down the hallway and your friend jumps out and scares you.

Every time you feed your cat, you use a clicker. Over time, whenever your cat hears a clicker it runs to the kitchen for dinner.

Whenever you do something correct you are rewarded with some chocolate (which you find rewarding).

Your grandparent is having some trouble remembering things. They take a test that shows them a pattern and then they have to match the pattern with an array of similar patterns.

Your younger sibling taps you on the shoulder over and over and over again until you eventually do not feel it.