Exam 5: Learning

Instinctive or involuntary behavior would probably be BEST modified by ___________ .

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and,all of a sudden,the response permanently ceases to produce any food,then _______ will occur.

Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?

Little Albert (Watson,1920)learned through classical conditioning to fear ______.

Any event whose presence decreases the likelihood that ongoing behavior will recur is __________.

Laura's heart rate had been conditioned to increase whenever she smelled Old Spice After Shave.However,her heart would also race to the aroma of Brut and English Leather.This reaction is known as:

In the experiment with Little Albert,the unconditioned stimulus was _______.

Classical is to _______ as operant is to _______.

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

Animals exposed to unavoidable,uncontrollable aversive stimulation exhibit _______ when later trained in an avoidance procedure.

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

The presentation of an aversive stimulus following a particular operant response is called:

During your very first visit to your campus,you probably needed a map to get around efficiently.However,a little while later you no longer needed the map,because _______ had occurred.

Which of the following is an example of punishment?

Negative reinforcement is negative in the sense that:

Taste aversions seem to be specific examples of what type of learning?

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

A procedure used to teach a whole behavior by first training its parts is called:

Which of the following is an example of learning?

The person associated with the law of effect is _______.