Chapter 8: Learning
True or False?
Remember to use this “test” as an opportunity to note down what you can remember about a topic.
Questions
- In the prisoner’s dilemma game, one of the players takes the role of a prisoner while the other takes the role of a prison guard.
- Being rewarded for doing something may actually reduce people’s liking for the activity.
- In classical conditioning, acquisition precedes extinction.
- In classical conditioning, a neutral stimulus becomes the unconditioned stimulus.
- Negative reinforcement is the same thing as positive punishment.
- Casino slot machines are programmed to pay out on a variable-ratio schedule.
- Both primary and secondary reinforcers can be used to change behaviour via operant conditioning.
- Observational learning is also called modelling.
- Taking away a child’s iPad after they have misbehaved is an example of negative reinforcement.
- In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus triggers the conditioned response.
Answers
- false
- true
- true
- false
- false
- true
- true
- true
- false
- false