Exam 7: Learning-Part A

Which school of psychology is MOST associated with pioneering research on learning?

One of the strongest early advocates of a cognitive approach to operant learning was:

Interjecting frequent short tests (e.g. ,pop quizzes)during a lecture is beneficial to learning because it:

In people as well as in rats and other animals,the _____ is critically involved in emotional conditioning.

A few studies have suggested that observational learning of tool use in chimpanzees can be enhanced by:

Superstitious behavior:

In an experiment studying classical conditioning,a tone sounds and 0.5 seconds later a puff of air is delivered to a participant's eye.The participant blinks.This process is repeated once per minute.After a number of trials,the participant blinks as soon as the tone sounds and before the puff of air is actually delivered.Within the context of this example,what is the US?

Which brain region's functions are responsible for eyeblink conditioning?

In Pavlov's research,what was the UR?

Frank flings a paper airplane through the air in history class.All of the students laugh.Their teacher,Mr.Curtis,becomes irate;his face turns beet red,and large veins bulge from his neck."Frank!" Mr.Curtis screams,"You are in big trouble now!" Frank really doesn't care about the trouble.The combination of the attention from the students and the emotional reaction from Mr.Curtis was plenty to ensure that Frank will keep misbehaving in class.Throwing the paper airplane,then,was:

Which behavior at first requires explicit learning but,over time,becomes implicit?

Which statement regarding practice testing is FALSE?

In rats,taste aversions are elicited by _____;in birds,taste aversions are elicited by _____.

Two-year-old Owen watches 6-year-old Evan behave aggressively with his stuffed animals.Owen would be LEAST likely to imitate Evan if:

A shy and timid child works up the courage to raise his hand to answer a question.The teacher calls on him and the child delivers an excellent answer.The teacher exclaims,"That is the best answer I have heard all week! Great job! Come up to the front of the room to get a sticker!" Unfortunately,the child found all of this attention unpleasant and no longer answers questions in class.His behavior of answering questions was:

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 CS?

The learning process involves the _____ of new knowledge,skills,or responses.

One day,in the midst of his babbling,baby Chad uttered the sound "mama" in the presence of his mother.Chad's mother screamed in delight.This noise startled baby Chad;he stopped uttering that sound for quite some time,illustrating the effects of:

In Pavlov's research,what was the CS?

Which item is a primary reinforcer?