1) Ivan Pavlov was attempting to prove that: A) Salivation could be brought unde

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1) Ivan Pavlov was attempting to prove that:

A) Salivation could be brought under voluntary control.

B) Involuntary responses could be elicited through that use of a formerly neutral stimulus.

C) Learning can take place in absence of a primary reinforcer.  

D) None of the above

2) John Watson proved that emotional responses to stimuli were learned and not inborn.

- True / False

3) In the "Skinner Box" the mouse pressing the bar resulted in:

A) Continuous reinforcement

B) Secondary reinforcement

C) Intermittent reinforcement

D) Direct reinforcement

4) If I want a person to work at a task at a moderate rate for long periods of time, the best reinforcement schedule to utilize is:

A) Variable ratio

B) Variable Interval

C) Fixed ratio

D) Fixed Interval

Explanation / Answer

1) option b) In Pavlov's experiment, bell was neutral stimulus, whenever bell rand, food came and dog start salivating. Dog learned association between bell and food and start salivating whenever he heard the bell. Hence the former neutral stimulus has becoe conditioned stimulus

2) True, John Watson was a behavioural psychologist, who's experiment "Little Albert" showed that fear can be conditioned . He showed a white rabbit to kid the kid gave no response but when John made some noise Albert started crying.

3) Direct reinforcement. Skinner's theory is famous for its operant conditioning, in which a mouse in cage happens to press abutton and gets food, then mouse learns association between button and food. Acc to Skinnner a human gives response as per the positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement

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