BA Psychology Behavioural Science — practice questions
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Practice BA Psychology Behavioural Science in the app →A dog salivates at meat powder without any training at all. The meat powder is the:The salivation itself, being natural and unlearned, is the:A bell rung repeatedly with the meat now makes the dog salivate on its own. The bell has become the:The salivation the bell now produces on its own is the:The first stretch of learning, when the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus get connected, is:The bell is now rung many times with no meat, and the dog stops salivating. That fading is:After a rest period the dog salivates at the bell once more. That reappearance is called:A dog learns to salivate at one particular bell but not at a doorbell. That learned difference is stimulus:In one kind of conditioning, an organism links a behaviour with its consequence. That kind is:Classical conditioning could not explain a child learning to ride a bike, because it is limited to behaviours The psychologist named as the founder of behaviorism is:A parent adds extra chores after a rule is broken, hoping the behaviour stops. That is:A parent instead takes away screen time to stop the same behaviour. That is:The most effective way to teach a person or animal a new behaviour is described as:A trainer rewards closer and closer approximations until the full behaviour appears. That method is:A worker is paid every Friday, whatever the output. That reinforcement schedule is:A restaurant manager drops in at unpredictable times to check the kitchen. That schedule is:A picker is paid after every ten baskets filled. That schedule is:A gambler at a slot machine never knows how many pulls will pay. That schedule is:Food and water reward without any learning behind them. Such rewards are:Money or stickers only reward because of what they are linked to. Such rewards are:Children who watched an adult attack an inflatable doll copied the behaviour themselves. That study used a dol