Exam 7: Learning-Part A

In operant conditioning,presenting reinforcement upon the occurrence of a response only at regular time periods is called a _____ schedule.

Students tend to devote more time to studying what they:

In an experiment studying classical conditioning,a tone sounds and 5 seconds later a mild skin shock is delivered to a participant.The skin shock results in a stress response consisting of a temporary increase in heart rate.This process is repeated once every 5 minutes.After a number of trials,the participant demonstrates an elevated heart rate when the tone sounds and before the shock is actually delivered.Within the context of this example,what is the CR?

An animal trainer is conditioning an elephant to startle at the sound of a trombone.Every time she plays the trombone,she then shows the elephant a mouse,which startles the elephant.Eventually,the elephant startles at just the sound of the trombone.However,after playing the trombone 10 more times,without a mouse appearing,the elephant exhibits no response.The lack of a response is an example of:

A reaction that usually resembles the unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus is termed a(n)_____ response.

Using an artificial grammar is one way of studying:

Rescorla and Wagner theorized that a stimulus will only become a CS when it is _____ the US.

Which statement about the conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning is TRUE?

A college instructor implements the following attendance policy.All students are given 20 bonus points at the start of the semester.Each absence will result in the loss of 5 bonus points.The instructor hopes this policy will _____ absences.

Benjamin recently moved to Mexico.Although he did not know how to speak Spanish,within a few weeks,he was speaking grammatically correct sentences,even though he couldn't articulate the grammatical rules.This BEST illustrates:

Which statement accurately summarizes the results of studies comparing tool use in 2-year-old children and chimpanzees who both watched a human model using a tool either efficiently or inefficiently?

_____ conducted research with cats in puzzle boxes.

Deficits in implicit learning have been linked to:

A general process in which the presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus is termed:

Brain imaging studies of rats given food or water have revealed increased dopaminergic activity in the:

Research has shown that dopamine-blocking drugs:

Which example BEST describes the learning process?

Mirror neurons are thought to play a role in the imitation of behavior and:

Rats that traversed a maze for 10 consecutive days with no reward showed no evidence of learning the maze.When reinforcement was provided beginning on the 11th day,Tolman reported that these rats:

A pigeon is reinforced for pecking a key whenever a particular tone is sounded but never reinforced if the tone is absent.Pigeons discriminating these conditions will: