Exam 7: Basic Principles of Learning

Which of the following is NOT true about learning?

The development of superstitions suggests that:

You have no idea how many lottery tickets you need to buy in order to win,but the more tickets you buy,the better your chances are of winning.Your behavior is being reinforced on a:

Which schedule of reinforcement results in very high rates of responding and rather permanent learning?

A woman walks by Sam.She is wearing the same perfume his first girlfriend always wore.Sam notices a pleasant,warm feeling in his body.In this example,the conditioned response is:

Farmer Niles needs rain.He sees dark clouds,and then begins shouting at the clouds "to rain." It starts to rain.After another dry spell,Farmer Niles performs the same sequence of steps and it starts to rain again.Soon,he is convinced that shouting at clouds produces rain.According to Skinner,Farmer Niles has experienced:

In Pavlov's studies,the food or meat powder was the:

When a pigeon pecks at a disc,food is given to the pigeon.Food is given only when the pigeon pecks at the disc.Which type of learning is this?

Connectionists would believe that rats learn to run through a maze by:

Sexual fetishes are primarily learned through operant conditioning.

A learning set enables individuals to learn insightfully.

What is spontaneous recovery?

When a response comes to be elicited by the conditioned stimulus,it is called a(n):

What happens during vicarious reinforcement?

You give a parrot food every time he sounds a bell when you say,"Polly want a cracker?" You do not give food when he sounds the bell while you say any other phrase.Eventually the parrot will develop:

Kirsten is trying to train her dog,Sadie,to come when she calls.She starts by calling her name,and when Sadie looks up,she gives her a treat.She does this a few times.Next,whenever Sadie stands up when her name is called,Kirsten gives her the treat.Finally,Sadie must come all the way over to Kirsten before she gets her treat.Kirsten is using ____________ to train Sadie.

If you are being rewarded after a predetermined time interval,you are on a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement.

Research has suggested that the loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be caused by a(n)__________.

Ethan is severely afraid of dogs.Because a big black dog lives down the street,he walks three blocks out of his way to go to and from school each day.Ethan's behavior is being reinforced through:

The ____________ refers to the unwitting reinforcement of the behavior you are attempting to punish when criticism is used as punishment.