Exam 2 Study Guide
The following represents a comprehensive overview of the material on Exam 2. To make this guide
useful, you should write down how you would respond to each of the points below as thoroughly as
possible. Then, you should study the guide that you have developed.
Chapter 5 – Learning
What is learning?
Be able to apply the following terms if given an example (this was practiced quite a bit in class!):
unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response.
Identify why some objects in the environment (e.g., heights, snakes) are more commonly feared than
others.
Describe Thorndike’s law of effect. What is observational learning? What did the famous Bobo doll study
show in regard to observational learning? What is classical conditioning? What is shaping?
Understand the difference between punishment and reinforcement, and between positive and negative
forms of these terms (i.e., positive punishment vs positive reinforcement vs negative punishment vs
