Exam 7: Learning-Part A

Which example BEST describes the learning process?

Shaping reinforces _____ behavior sequences until the overall sequence of behavior is performed reliably.

Sam was an accomplished furniture maker and was paid well each time he produced a set number of pieces of furniture.Sam was on a _____ reinforcement schedule.

Tammy ate raw oysters for the first time and,4 hours later,became extremely sick to her stomach.Now,the smell of oysters makes her stomach queasy.What is the US?

Relative insensitivity to delayed rewards is NOT a reason it is difficult to address a societal problem such as:

Which statement about observational learning is TRUE?

After implementing a policy where students can earn extra recess time with their good behavior,Miss Hobbes observes that her first-grade students have been better behaved.This illustrates which behavioral process?

A child throws a temper tantrum at the mall because he wants to play with the toy that his mother just bought him.The MOST effective way for his mother to punish this behavior is to:

Amelia tells an off-color joke to her friends but not to her grandparents.Her audience represents the _____ in Skinner's three-term contingency.

James Olds (1956)discovered that rats would ignore food,water,and other life-sustaining necessities for hours if they were able to control stimulation of certain parts of the brain.He called these areas of the brain:

Observational learning of a new dance sequence requires the activity of the _____ cortex.

What is one major flaw of punishment?

Rescorla and Wagner introduced a(n)_____ component to classical conditioning.

Which technique is LEAST effective for learning school-related material?

Checking your e-mail is reinforced with receiving important e-mails at unpredictable times according to which type of reinforcement schedule?

If children observe their older brothers fighting in the neighborhood,Bandura would suggest that the younger siblings would:

Jeremy goes to crowded parties and approaches women with a cheesy pick-up line designed to get their phone numbers.Jeremy never knows which women will fall for his line,but he does know tha,t if he asks enough women,it's quite probable that he will get a phone number.Jeremy's behavior is being reinforced on a _____ schedule.

In a series of studies by Delgado and colleagues (2005),participants chose to share or not share money with their assigned partners based on false written descriptions of their partners' trustworthiness and not the level of sharing actually demonstrated by their partners in the game.These results suggest that:

The presence of a drug-related conditioned compensatory response produces:

Which brain region was critical for Little Albert to form the association between the rat and the loud noise?