Psychology Experiments Are Typically Designed to

question 186

Multiple Choice

Psychology experiments are typically designed to

• A) test principles that help explain behavior.
• B) observe behaviors that are unobservable outside the laboratory.
• C) re-create the naturally occurring conditions that influence people's daily behaviors.
• D) observe a truly random sample of human or animal behavior.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An educational method where the intensity of an action is altered by either encouraging or penalizing it.

Forgetting

The loss of information from long-term memory, often considered a normal process due to various factors like interference, decay, or retrieval failure.

Classical Conditioning

a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.