Study Guide for Test 3 for General Psychology on chapters 4 & 5 at TRI-C(1)

Study Guide for Test 3
General Psychology (Psychology 1010)
Chapters 4 & 5
Dr. Janco-Gidley
Chapter 4
Definitions/ (For all definitions, besides knowing the basic definition, you should be able to
apply that knowledge to be able to pick out that concept in an example question):
 Classical conditioning
o Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
o Unconditioned response (UCR)
o Neutral stimulus (NS)
o Conditioned stimulus (CS)
o Conditioned response (CR)
o Know what each of these things were in Pavlov’s classic experiment (e.g. the bell
was initially the neutral stimulus which became the conditioned stimulus) and be
able to identify them in modern examples as well
 Stimulus generalization
o (be familiar with the Little Albert experiment)
 Stimulus discrimination
 Extinction
 Reinforcer
 Spontaneous recovery
 Higher order conditioning
 Vicarious conditioning
 Conditioned taste aversion
 Biological preparedness
 Operant Conditioning
o Law of Effect
o Operant
o Reinforcement
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