Table of contents

1. Introduction to Psychology1h 43m
2. Psychology Research2h 20m
3. Biological Psychology2h 41m
4. Sensation and Perception28m
5. Consciousness and Sleep32m
- Sleep
  32m
6. Learning1h 26m
7. Memory34m
- Information Processing Model
  4m
- Storage - The Three Box Model of Memory
  29m
8. Cognition37m
- The Structure of Language
  12m
- Language Development
  25m
9. Emotion and Motivation35m
10. Developmental Psychology1h 20m
11. Personality1h 17m
12. Social Psychology1h 18m
13. Stress and Health41m
14. Psychological Disorders1h 27m
15. Treatment1h 24m

6. Learning

Operant Conditioning

Psychology

6. Learning

Operant Conditioning

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Multiple Choice

The Law of Effect states:

The anticipation of a stimulus is sufficient to illicit a response.

Responses can be generalized to gain rewards.

Behaviors that are rewarded are repeated, behaviors that are not punished are not.

A behavior that has been extinguished can spontaneously reappear after a few weeks.

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Understand the Law of Effect: It is a principle developed by Edward Thorndike, which states that behaviors followed by satisfying consequences are more likely to be repeated, while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are less likely to occur.

Clarify the concept of reinforcement: Positive reinforcement involves adding a rewarding stimulus to encourage a behavior, while negative reinforcement involves removing an unpleasant stimulus to encourage a behavior.

Explain extinction: Extinction occurs when a behavior that was previously reinforced is no longer reinforced, leading to a decrease in the frequency of that behavior over time.

Introduce spontaneous recovery: This refers to the phenomenon where a behavior that has been extinguished reappears after a period of time without reinforcement.

Connect the concepts: Behaviors that are rewarded are repeated due to reinforcement, and even if extinguished, they can spontaneously reappear, demonstrating the persistence of learned behaviors under certain conditions.