Exam 6: Learning

When a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, ____ has occurred.

If an employer at a cleaning company wants his employees to clean more toilets per shift, he would get the best response when using a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

Stimulus discrimination should lead to ____.

Aversion therapy to treat alcoholism is ____.

When stimulus generalization occurs, ____.

Your new roommate is an incredibly good cook. It becomes apparent, however, that your roommate particularly enjoys preparing fish. You eventually get used to the odor and barely notice it but, when you return home after a two-week vacation, you very much notice the odor again. This illustrates ____.

Kim is a daycare worker. She recently decided that the children would no longer be allowed to watch Batman on TV because so many kids were getting into fights on the playground after watching this cartoon. What best explains why watching Batman would influence the children to fight on the playground?

Where would the placement of a neutral stimulus most likely yield the strongest classical conditioning outcome?

A physical therapist who attempts to treat a person with chronic motion sickness by repeatedly exposing the person to the stimulation that causes the motion sickness is using ____.

Which progression represents Bandura's four-step process in his social learning theory?

When a conditioned stimulus no longer produces a conditioned response, ____ has occurred.

Slot machines pay out according to a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

Lloyd's roommate, Don, classically conditioned Lloyd to cringe whenever Don opened a squeaky drawer by pairing a squeak with a table tennis ball to Lloyd's head. Lloyd wants to return the favor, so when Don is out, Lloyd discreetly wires an electrode to the drawer handle so that Don will be shocked when he touches it. Lloyd is using ____.

After Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, he began to fear several other furry things. This is an example of ____.

If a behavior continues to be exhibited in spite of the fact that no reinforcement is being given, it is likely that the behavior ____.

Spontaneous recovery refers to when a(n) ____.

Recent research on parental use of physical punishment reveals that ____.

Recent research on the brain and habituation suggests habituation is somewhat primitive in nature. This research has found that which part of the brain is involved in certain instances of habituation?

Which type of response would not be a result of classical conditioning?

The orienting reflex is useful because it ____.