First Half Chapter 8 (not Complete, Only Second Page)

Question 0

Taste aversion

Answer 0

Feeling ill after smelling a food that once made you sick. No longer enjoying the taste and avoiding it.

Question 1

John Garcia

Answer 1

Classical conditioning, taste aversion

Question 2

Operant conditioning

Answer 2

A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

Question 3

Respondent behavior

Answer 3

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Skinner’s term for behavior learned through classical conditioning.

Question 4

B.F. Skinner

Answer 4

Behaviorism’ most influential and controversial figure. Operant conditioning. Skinner box. Four schedules.

Question 5

Thorndike

Answer 5

Operant conditioning, created principle of law and effect, performed the cat in the puzzle box experiment.

Question 6

Law and effect

Answer 6

Thorndike’s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.

Question 7

Operant Chamber

Answer 7

Skinner box; contains a bar or key for an animal to manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer, with attached devices to record the animal’s rate of bar pressing or key pecking. Used in operant conditioning research.

Question 8

Shaping

Answer 8

An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of desired behavior.