Los Angeles Community College District » Psychology » Psychology 001 - General Psychology I » Summer 2022 » Graded Video Quiz Classical and Operant Conditioning

Question #1

A long term change in behavior based on experience is known as ________________.

A. adaptation

B. learning

C. modeling

D. psychology

Question #2

Classical conditioning was discovered by what famous researcher?

A. Sigmund Freud

B. BF Skinner

C. Ivan Pavlov

D. John B Watson

Question #3

What's the best concise definition of operant conditioning?

A. Associating together two unrelated stimuli

B. The study of how rules are easily broken

C. Associating behaviors and their consequences

D. A philosophical tool used to aide discussions around behavior modification

Question #4

An example of negative reinforcement is a night of no homework because you did well on an exam.

A. False; it's positive because there was an action taken

B. True; it's negative because there was a removal of a stimulus

C. False; it's a bad thing to take away a stimulus that can potentially help someone

D. True; it's a good thing to remove homework

Question #5

In Pavlov's famous experiment, what do we call the food that makes the dog salivate?

A. Conditioned Response

B. Conditioned Stimulus

C. Unconditioned Stimulus

D. Unconditioned Response