Exam 5: Learning

On a fixed-interval schedule,reinforcement is given for the __________.

Stimulus generalization occurs:

A very high rate of responding is produced by a _______ schedule of reinforcement.

The type of learning that involves a sudden coming together of the elements of a situation so that the solution to a problem is instantly clear is _____.

When you were first learning to make your bed,your parents told you that you did a good job when you got the bedspread pulled up,even though the bed was still a little messy.For the next week they showed you how to be a little neater each time you made the bed.What operant conditioning procedure did your parents use?

Social learning theory's foremost proponent is __________ .

The idea that for classical conditioning to occur,the presentation of the conditioned stimulus must tell you something about whether the unconditioned stimulus is going to occur is called ___________ theory.

To teach a tiger to jump through a flaming hoop,the tiger is first reinforced for jumping up on a certain pedestal,then for leaping from that pedestal to another.Next the tiger has to jump through a hoop between the pedestals to get the reward.Finally,the hoop is set afire and the tiger must jump through it to get the reward.This is an example of __________ .

Which of the following is NOT a negative reinforcer?

You have a class in which you have a quiz every Friday.Your studying for quizzes is reinforced on what type of schedule?

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

An experiment finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he hears a certain piece of music.The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of music.The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone.In this situation the UNCONDITIONED response is the:

A small boy has just recently delighted his parents because he learned to call his father "daddy." However,it has now become an embarrassment to his mother when she takes him out with her because he keeps calling other men "daddy." This is an example of:

Negative reinforcement is best thought of as:

When someone uses negative reinforcement to change a behavior,the behavior is likely to ______.

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat,Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented.In this experiment,salivation to the meat was the _______.

New learning that works in the opposite direction from the original learning results in ________ .

A reinforcer that removes something unpleasant from a situation is a __________.

Who formulated the law of effect?

Learning that is not manifested until some later time is called _________.