Exam 7: Learning-Part A

After serving in combat the sight of planes flying overhead makes a veteran feel uneasy,illustrating the behavioral process of:

In a study by Cross and colleagues (2009),half of the participants watched videos of specific dance sequences.The other half of participants actually practiced these sequences.All participants were then given a surprise dance test consisting of trained (observed or practiced)and untrained sequences.Participants who only observed videos of dance sequences:

Tiffany is studying for her upcoming Spanish exam by mixing problem types during the same study session.For example,she might do a verb conjugations,followed by reciting vocabulary words,followed by a reading comprehension task.This form of studying is termed:

Which item is a secondary reinforcer?

Slot machines pay off on schedules that are determined by the random number generator that controls the play of the machine.For example,on average,the machine might pay off every 100 pulls,but sometimes two pulls are required and sometimes several hundred pulls are required.Slot machines are a real-world example of which type of reinforcement schedule?

The three-term contingency states that,in the presence of a _____,a _____ produces a(n)_____.

Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten earlier.Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues,researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect involving giving a patient unusual foods,such as coconut or root-beer flavored candy,at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment.Such a procedure attempts to establish the taste of the candy as a(n):

In an artificial grammar task,participants are shown strings of letters labeled "grammatically correct" and "grammatically incorrect." Then they are shown new strings and are asked to classify them as correct or incorrect.Participants usually are:

Observational learning is:

Laboratory monkeys that have never seen snakes or flowers watch other monkeys display a fear response to these things.Through observation,observer monkeys learn to fear:

A teenager swears at the dinner table,and as a result,her parents take away her iPod for one week.The teenager is now much less likely to swear at the dinner table,illustrating:

When something undesirable has been presented upon the occurrence of a behavior,and as a result that behavior is weakened,_____ has happened.

Billy Bob's Big Burger Barn is your favorite restaurant,and lately you've noticed that,every time you walk by there on your way to class,your mouth starts to salivate.In this incidence of classical conditioning,the sight of the restaurant is the _____ and your salivation is the _____.

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 CR?

A(n)_____ schedule is based on the number of responses needed to achieve reinforcement.

In one study,pigeons watched other pigeons receive reinforcement for either stepping on a bar or pecking at the feeder.When the observer pigeons were later put in the operant chamber,they tended to:

A condition in which something is learned but is NOT manifested as a behavioral change until sometime in the future is called:

According to the _____,being raised with humans has a profound effect on the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees,resulting in a greater ability to learn by observing human models.

Which statement about implicit learning is TRUE?

Dolphins are MOST likely trained to do amazing tricks through a process called: