Exam 2: Elicited Behavior Habituation and Sensitization

Discuss the importance of behavioral sequences. What role do appetitive and consummatory behaviors play in organizing behavior? How do general search, focal search, and consummatory behaviors differ? Provide examples of each.

Appetitive behaviors are most correctly described by which of the following?

Your professor is conducting an investigation of visual attention in infants. A relatively complex pattern will be presented to the infants, hopefully eliciting visual attention. What do you predict will happen with repeated presentations of the complex visual stimulus?

Which of the following is not true of the dual-process theory?

Describe how elicited behavior can be involved in complex social interactions, like breast feeding.

Which of the following is true of visual attention in human infants?

Which of the following is likely to be the most stereotyped response?

Your roommate no longer drinks his orange juice every morning like the doctor ordered. He says he does not care for it any more. Based on learning principles, to increase his juice consumption, and benefit his health you suggest

Which of the following is the correct order in a foraging behavior sequence?

According to one study using lemon and lime juice to investigate the role of familiarity of food and its rated pleasantness, which of the following is correct?

The dual-process theory suggests which of the following?

Habituation in the Aplysia occurs due to

Behaviors such as foraging for food in animals and cooking food in humans are classified as

Repeated presentation of a stimulus will cause which of the following?

Of the following, which is not a reflexive behavior?

What is the difference between a modal action pattern and a simple general reflex? Provide an example of each.

The opponent-process theory assumes

To rule out response fatigue as the cause for the decreased responding that occurs over repeated presentations of a stimulus, the researcher should

Describe the opponent-process theory of motivation. Using an example from common human experience, demonstrate how the mechanisms of the theory account for an overt response.

How can a response that has decreased through habituation to the eliciting stimulus be reinstated?