Exam 4: Learning and Human Nurture

Judy has cancer and is receiving chemotherapy at a local hospital. Her parents notice that she now rejects food that she willingly ate last week (before chemotherapy). Through the process of ________, the food is now acting as a ________.

Which strategy will NOT increase the effects of punishment?

Pavlov placed food in the mouths of the dogs, and they began to salivate. Pavlov's student noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps. The salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a

Last month Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs, so he no longer likes chili dogs. Walter has experienced

________ is a procedure for changing behavior by reinforcing responses that approach the desired goal.

Skinner was to rats as Thorndike was to

A punisher ________ the probability of a response while a negative reinforcer ________ the probability of a response.

Organisms seem to learn the spatial layout of their environment by ________, even if they are not reinforced for learning particular paths.

After acquisition of classical conditioning, the ________ now has the ability to elicit a response that resembles the UCR.

The concept of latent learning was developed by

Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is most likely true?

The two main types of behavioral learning are

"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of

In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is true?

Under what conditions is punishment effective in the control of behavior?

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of ________ to accomplish this.

A box used in operant conditioning of animals that limits the available responses and, thus, increases the likelihood that the desired response will occur is called a

Imagine that you flinch after seeing lightning because in previous instances the lightning is followed by thunder, which scared you. In this scenario, lightning can be interpreted as being a(n)

Cognitive learning is best described by all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is an example of a rewarding consequence?