Exam 5: C: Learning

Insight is a concept associated with ________ learning theory.

A reinforcer that removes something unpleasant from a situation is called a ________ reinforcer.

Changing behavior through the reinforcement of partial responses is called _______.

When Ivan Pavlov presented meat powder,the dog salivated.The meat powder was the ________ and salivation was the ________.

Classical conditioning was discovered by _______.

The mental image of an area,such as a maze or the floor plan of a building,is called _____________.

When a CR has been conditioned to a particular stimulus,the organism will also tend to make the CR in response to other stimuli.This phenomenon is called:

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat,Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented.In this experiment,salivation to the meat was the _______.

Anything that increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur more frequently is called a(n)__________ .

Training a rat to push a lever to escape from an electric shock is an example of:

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat,Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented.In this experiment,salivation to the meat was the _______.

In classical conditioning the stimulus that normally evokes an automatic response even without new learning is called the:

Abigail is trying to figure out how she can BEST use employee pay to shape her employees' behavior.She is interested in short-term productivity (speed),not consistency,long-term productivity,or employee turnover.According to reinforcement theory,she should probably use a _______ schedule.

Which schedule of reinforcement is programmed into slot machines?

A small boy has just recently delighted his parents because he learned to call his father "daddy." However,it has now become an embarrassment to his mother when she takes him out with her because he keeps calling other men "daddy." This is an example of:

Paul is coming down with the flu,but he eats spaghetti anyway and subsequently becomes violently ill.A month later he sees that spaghetti is being served in the dining hall and is overcome by nausea.What type of learning is illustrated by this episode?

The apparatus that has come to symbolize the theory of operant conditioning is the:

The only vending machine in your dorm is notorious for delivering its merchandise only occasionally when people put money in it.This is most similar to a _______ schedule of reinforcement.

Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?

When the removal of an event increases the likelihood of a prior response,_______ has occurred.