How do you understand the English saying "Less is more"?

The unconditioned reflex is

A. a kind of behavior acquired by experience
B. always associated with voluntary behavior
C. a learned response pattern
D. an inborn response pattern

What takes place when the conditioned stimulus is presented a number of times without the unconditioned stimulus?

A. Forgetting
B. Extinction
C. Discrimination
D. Stimulus generalization

Thorndike said that when satisfactory results are obtained there is a tendencyretain what has been learned. He called this tendency the

A. law of effect
B. principle of reinforcement
C. principle of reward
D. law of positive feedback

Operant behavior is characterized by

A. actions that have no meaning
B. its inability to be affected by reinforcement
C. its conscious nature
D. actions that have consequences

What principle is associated with the phrase greater resistance to extinction?

A. The law of effect
B. The total reinforcement effect
C. The partial reinforcement effect
D. The pleasure-pain effect

Vicarious reinforcement is characterized by

A. primary gratification
B. imagined gratification
C. extinction
D. the discriminative stimulus

What did Köhler define as the sudden reorganization of a perceptual field?

A. Operant conditioning
B. Classical conditioning
C. Insight
D. Extinction

The concept of a learning set is associated with what underlying process?

A. Spontaneous inhibition
B. The law of effect
C. Learned optimism
D. Learning to learn

The use of a mnemonic device is a special case of

A. encoding
B. short-term memory
C. antagonistic stimuli
D. involuntary conditioning