Unit 6

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behavior.

Question 2

Habituation

Answer 2

An organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

Question 3

Associative Learning

Answer 3

Learning that two certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences.

Question 4

Stimulus

Answer 4

Any event or situation that evokes a response.

Question 5

Cognitive Learning

Answer 5

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.

Question 6

Classical Conditioning

Answer 6

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

Question 7

Behaviorism

Answer 7

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with the objective science but not the behavior without mental processes.

Question 8

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

Answer 8

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.

Question 9

Unconditioned Response (UR)