Exam 11: Learning Part 1

McKenna had an unplanned pregnancy when she was 19 years old. Following her pregnancy, McKenna started taking a birth control pill each day to prevent another pregnancy. In this case,

The basic principles of gradual acquisition, extinction, stimulus generalization, and discrimination apply

The general principle governing stimulus generalization in classical conditioning is that generalization is greater when

If a dog salivates to a blue light and not to a yellow light, the dog is showing evidence of

If a child covers his/her ears when seeing fireworks, before hearing the sound of the fireworks, seeing the fireworks would be a(n)

Henry received a bad sunburn on his face when he was skiing last winter. Now, before he starts a day of skiing, he uses a sunscreen on his face to prevent another sunburn. In this case, avoiding a sunburn functions as

One Saturday, Clayton was sitting at home when the telephone rang. A local company was making promotional calls and told Clayton he had just won a $500 gift certificate. He felt a rush of excitement at the thought of what he could do with $500. Now Clayton finds that whenever he hears a telephone ring, he feels a little surge of excitement. In this example, the conditioned response is

In Pavlov's original experiment on classical conditioning, the unconditioned response (UR) was

Researchers have found that animals show evidence of classical conditioning if they are injected with a drug that chemically causes immunosuppression, while they are simultaneously drinking an unusual-tasting liquid. In these studies, the conditioned response would be

The type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus is

Which of the following is NOT an example of a secondary reinforcer?

In classical conditioning, the stimulus that is originally neutral in regard to the response to be learned is the

A previously neutral stimulus, that through conditioning acquires the capacity to evoke a response, is

The phenomenon of spontaneous recovery suggests that

Ken has been conditioned to be afraid of snow. For a number of weeks during November and December snow is repeatedly presented with Santa Claus; now Ken is also fearful of Santa Claus. This example illustrates the classical conditioning process of

In a FR schedule, the reinforcement is given

While ____ is most closely associated with classical conditioning, ____ is most closely associated with operant conditioning.

Veronica had been working at Zenex Industries for 8 months when her boss asked to see her in his office. She thought he wanted to talk about a promotion so she was quite excited, but instead of giving her a promotion, the boss told Veronica she was being laid off as a result of company downsizing. Veronica could feel her heart pounding as she listened to the news. Veronica was able to get a new job, but every time her new boss asks to talk to her in private, Veronica feels a little faint. In this example, the unconditioned response is

On Thursday morning, Charles prepared his typical breakfast of corn flakes with milk and a cup of coffee. However, instead of having grapefruit with his breakfast, he tried eating guava for the first time. At lunchtime he ate his typical lunch of tuna salad and potato chips. However, instead of having a Coke to drink with his lunch, he drank a new fruit flavored soft drink for the first time. During the mid afternoon he became extremely ill. If his illness causes him to develop a conditioned response to something which stimulus is likely to be the conditioned stimulus?

Continuing to pair a specific CS and US, but periodically presenting stimuli similar to the CS and not pairing them with the US, should result in