CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE
Identity the concept and type it in the small box below each list. Then click on the concept to check your answer.

 Classical Conditioning
For each situation, identify the US, UR, CS, and the CR. A. Help Tommy get over his fear of vacuum cleaners. B. Get Susie to take medicine. C. Help Albert get over his fear of white rats. D. Explain why a guinea pig squeals when a refrigerator door opens.

 Operant Conditioning
Identify the process of operant conditioning illustrated by each example. A. Behavior reappears after a rest. B. Behavior decreases to become nonexistent. C. New behavior is learned when reinforced.

 Schedules of Reinforcement
Identify the schedule of reinforcement represented by each example. A. Joe gets a weekly paycheck. B. Susie gives Jim a kiss when he rubs her back for an average of 10 minutes.. C. Leslie continues to play at a gambling machine. D. Charlie gets a bonus after every ten items produced.

 Reinforcement and Punishment
Identify the type of reinforcement (positive or negative) or punishment (positive or negative) represented by each example. A. After her second grade teacher yells at her, Linda's misbehavior in class increases. B. Tom's parents took away his car keys because of his bad grades. C. Linda receives candy whenever she is quiet in church. D. Dan yelled at his young son when he caught him playing with matches. E. After her finger got infected last month, Dawn quickly took out a splinter today.

 Important People in Learning
Identify each person whose contribution to psychology is described. A. Proposed the law of effect. B. Developed classical conditioning procedures. C. Developed procedures to study conditioned taste aversion. D. Conditioned Little Albert to fear a rat. E. Developed basic operant conditioning procedures. F. Studied latent learning in rats. G. Studied observational learning.

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