Exam 5: Learning

Any behavior that is voluntary is referred to as a(n)________.

"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence,it will tend to be repeated.If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence,it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________.

Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate at a metronome sound that was paired with a meat stimulus.After the CS-UCS connection was strongly established,Pavlov then presented the dog with several flashes of a light followed by the metronome sound.After a few days,when the light flashes were presented by themselves,the dog salivated.This is an example of ________.

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

Bill hates to clean up after dinner.One night,he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning u

The person MOST closely associated with the Law of Effect is ________.

Biofeedback training is an application that uses the principles of operant conditioning.

Ellen,an adult who has an intellectual disability,has just received a "token." Based on this information,it is most reasonable to assume that Ellen ________.

Last month,Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs,so he no longer likes chili dogs.Walter has experienced ____________.

When a strongly conditioned CS is used to make another stimulus into a second CS,the effect is known as ________.

After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together iPads.They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of iPads they put together in a day.You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of iPads put together).According to Skinner,you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

Albert was a little boy who was shown to be remarkably resistant to having his emotional responses conditioned by Watson.Watson presented Albert with a cute little furry rat and then rang a loud bell.Later,Albert should have become scared of the bell,but this never happened.

Which of the following is NOT an example of operant behavior?

An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________.

A person is connected to an electroencephalograph,a machine that records the brain's electrical activity.The person is reinforced when his or her pattern of brain waves changes in order to treat a disorder such as epilepsy.This technique is best called _________.

The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred is called ________.

As an infant,Stephanie received many penicillin injections from the doctor.When she later saw a photographer in a white coat that was similar to the doctor's coat,she started to cry.This is an example of ________.

A conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the paired presentation of the UCS.After time,the subject no longer makes the conditioned response.This fading of the CR is known as habituation.

Seligman expanded his theory of learned helplessness to explain __________.

Why does fear caused by punishment make the punishment ineffective in changing behavior?