Learning: Understanding Acquired Behavior 87- Thorndike said that when satisfactory results are obtained there is a tendency
to retain what has been learned. He called this tendency the
a. law of effect
b. principle of reinforcement
c. principle of reward
d. law of positive feedback - Operant behavior is characterized by
a. actions that have no meaning
b. its inability to be affected by reinforcement
c. its conscious nature
d. actions that have consequences - What principle is associated with the phrase greater resistance to extinction?
a. The law of effect
b. The total reinforcement effect
c. The partial reinforcement effect
d. The pleasure-pain effect - Vicarious reinforcement is characterized by
a. primary gratification
b. imagined gratification
c. extinction
d. the discriminative stimulus - What did Köhler define as the sudden reorganization of a perceptual field?
a. Operant conditioning
b. Classical conditioning
c. Insight
d. Extinction - The concept of a learning set is associated with what underlying process?
a. Spontaneous inhibition
b. The law of effect
c. Learned optimism
d. Learning to learn - The use of a mnemonic device is a special case of
a. encoding
b. short-term memory
c. antagonistic stimuli
d. involuntary conditioning - Which one of the following is not associated with the memory process of
retrieval?
a. Recall
b. Recognition