Exam 7: Basic Principles of Learning

Connectionists believe that learning is the result of establishing a rapid neural pathway between two parts of the brain.

In operant conditioning,the association learned is between:

The tendency for responses to occur more often in the presence of one stimulus than others is referred to as:

Operant conditioning is a type of conditioning that is dependent on:

You decide to reward yourself with a snack every time you finish reading two chapters in your history textbook.You are reinforcing your studying by using a:

Negative reinforcement:

As a child,every time you played near the neighbor's farm and a cow wandered over,your mother (who has a terrible fear of cows)screamed,snatched you into her arms,and ran into the house.You would get so startled that you would begin to cry.You now have a fear of cows.In this example,the UCS is:

Rebecca was playing outside with her cousin,Emma.Suddenly,Emma let out a bloodcurdling scream and yelled,"A bee!" She ran to her mother as fast as she could and her mother snatched her into her arms,comforting and soothing her.The next week,Rebecca was gardening with her mother,saw a bee,and screamed,"A bee!" She ran to her mother and clung to her leg,trying to get her mother to pick her up.Of the following,which BEST accounts for Rebecca's behavior?

Which type of conditioning should produce a decrease in behavior?

Why are responses learned through avoidance conditioning so difficult to extinguish?

Your 2-year-old son calls all animals with four legs "doggies." Your child is using ____________.

Before classical conditioning,the conditioned stimulus is best referred to as:

You always ring a bell before feeding your pet pig.Now your pig drools whenever he hears the bell.How can you extinguish this response?

Of the following,which is the BEST description of Pavlov's accidental discovery?

Which schedule of reinforcement results in the most rapid learning?

Which of the following is psychology's definition of learning?

The connectionist explanation of learning suggests that when a behavior is learned,the stimulus becomes "connected" to:

The complex behaviors that whales display at Sea World have been probably been developed through the process of shaping.

The leader of a cult tells its followers that if they bow down to him,he will prevent Satan from burning them alive.The followers bow down to him,and sure enough,Satan does not burn them,so they keep bowing down to the leader.Why would it be so difficult to convince the followers to stop bowing down to the cult leader?

In Pavlov's classic experiments,the laboratory attendant became a ____________.