Exam 8: Behavioural and Learning Theories

The concept of self-efficacy was first emphasized by:

Which of the following cases demonstrated the importance of learning conditions for Watson?

Triadic reciprocal causation is also referred to as:

The Bobo doll study measured:

It is thought that the experience of reinforcement leads to changes in ________.

Which of the following theorists formed social cognitive theory?

Skinner suggested that personality is:

Making a rat-phobic patient touch a rat illustrates:

S-R learning refers to:

When the number of responses occurring between one reinforced response and the other reinforced response is held constant, this is termed:

Who coined the term behaviour potential?

According to Watson, personality is:

Bandura showed that children are more likely to imitate models who are seen as:

________ grants rewards on only certain trials following certain responses.

Increasing the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated due to the occurrence of pleasurable outcomes after the behaviour has been expressed is called:

For Skinner, the crucial importance of psychology centered on:

The degree of the person's preference for that reinforcement to occur if the possibility of occurrence of all alternatives were equal is termed:

An individual's sense that he or she is capable or incapable of something is termed:

Bandura's social cognitive theory is that behaviours that make up our personality are obtained via:

The process of classical conditioning was described by: