Learning That Is Reinforced by Rewards,a Gradual Strengthening of Stimulus-Response

question 18

Multiple Choice

Learning that is reinforced by rewards,a gradual strengthening of stimulus-response connections,is called

• A)imprinting.
• B)operant conditioning.
• C)insight learning.
• D)extinction.
• E)motivation.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Narrowing

A process in which infants lose their apparently innate abilities to detect certain sensory features because those features do not occur very often in their environments.

Experience-Dependent

A term describing traits or abilities that develop or change in response to the environment and specific experiences.

Rosenzweig

Refers to Saul Rosenzweig, a psychologist known for his work on frustration and aggression, and for developing the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study.

Synaptic Connections

The points of contact where signals are transmitted between neurons, enabling communication within the nervous system.