Exam 5: Learning

Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?

An experimenter finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he sees a picture of a nude female. The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then presents such a picture. The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone. In this situation the CONDITIONED response is the ________.

The person MOST closely associated with the Law of Effect is ________.

A discriminative stimulus is typically viewed as ________.

Jose was lying in bed when he suddenly realized how he might deal with a fast approaching deadline at work. When his coworkers asked how he came up with his idea, he said, "It just came to me out of nowhere." Psychologists would refer to this as

On a fixed-interval schedule, reinforcement is given for the __________.

For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

A reinforcer that is reinforcing in and of itself is called a ________ reinforcer.

Human beings generally have an aversion to bitter and sour foods. Some researchers suggest that this is because foods that are inedible or even poisonous are often bitter or sour. The tendency of human beings to find these potentially harmful foods repulsive is an example of ________.

The fact that you prefer blondes because your last love interest had blonde hair best illustrates ________.

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, the presentation of the meat was the:

What important factor in learning is Robert Rescorla best known for?

In the experiment with Little Albert, the unconditioned response was _______.