Exam 7: Learning-Part E

Research has shown that students who are led to believe that a lecture will end in a quiz will:

_____ activity is a critical underlying mechanism in conditioning responses similar to the one conditioned in Little Albert.

Although it is not known whether you have to buy 1,10,or 100 lottery tickets to get a winning ticket,it is highly probable that,if you just keep buying,eventually you will get a winner.In fact,the very next ticket you buy may be a winner.Buying lottery tickets is reinforced according to which type of schedule?

Joe,a young boy,learns how to make a paper airplane by watching his older brother.He goes to his kindergarten class,where he makes a paper airplane,and Jenna learns to make one by watching Joe.Jenna goes home after school and plays with her friend Nora.Nora learns to make a paper airplane by watching Jenna.This process illustrates:

When Jasminda first moved into her apartment,the buzzing noise coming from her refrigerator disturbed her greatly.Now,after 3 months,Jasminda doesn't notice the sound because of:

Jake can make his sister,Joy,give him her toys or candies by whistling without stopping until she gives in.Because she hates the sound so much,Joy will give Jake whatever he wants.Jake's act of whistling is maintained by _____,and Joy's act of giving is maintained by _____.

Classical conditioning is to operant conditioning as:

Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to salivate to a 1,000-hz tone due to its pairing with food.After this training,it was found that the dogs would salivate to a 900-hz tone but not to a 500-hz tone.Salivating to the 900-hz tone is an example of _____,and not salivating to a 500-hz tone is an example of _____.

_____ suggested that rats in a maze don't simply produce behaviors in response to stimuli or consequences,but rather develop a _____ of the maze.

_____ occurs when a stimulus is presented that increases the likelihood of a behavior.

In eyeblink conditioning,a tone is sounded immediately before air is puffed into a participant's eye.After a number of tone-air puff pairings,which factor is the conditioned response?

_____ the delay between a response and a consequence _____.

The idea of _____ suggests that conditioning has an evolutionary perspective in that certain associations will be more easily learned if they help an organism survive.

In the context of John B.Watson's classical conditioning experiments,how could extinction be used to eliminate Little Albert's fear of a white rat?

Angie's bad-tempered boss wears a particular type of cologne.She is usually uncomfortable in his presence.One day,Angie was at the mall when she smelled the same cologne.The smell triggered a momentary feeling of uneasiness.In this example,which factor served as the unconditioned stimulus?