psychology 101: unit 2 questions and answers graded A+ 2024/2025

psychology 101: unit 2learning - correct answer the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors associative learning - correct answer learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and it's consequences (as in operant conditioning) stimulus - correct answer any event or situation that evokes a response respondent behavior - correct answer behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus operant behavior - correct answer behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences cognitive learning - correct answer the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others or through language classical conditioning - correct answer a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events behaviorism - correct answer the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. most research psychologists agree with (1) but not with (2) neutral stimulus - correct answer in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning unconditioned response - correct answer in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (such as food in the mouth) unconditioned response - correct answer in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers an unconditioned response