Exam 6: D: Learning

In operant conditioning,target behaviours are __________,whereas in classical conditioning they are __________.

While on a cruise ship,Kevin became sick after eating a seafood dinner.His food poisoning coupled with sea sickness led to a terrible vacation,and,consequently,Kevin shivers at the mere sight of cruise ships.Kevin's behaviour illustrates the process of

An animal is conditioned to salivate to a bell using Pavlovian procedures.After the conditioning is established,the animal is then put through an extinction procedure and the conditioned salivation disappears.Then the animal is removed from the test situation for several days.When returned to the test situation,the conditioned response is seen again.The effect is known as

What was the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)in the case of Little Albert?

Sheldon is a psychology student and decides to conduct an experiment where he provides reinforcement to his pet rat every minute,independent of its behaviour.After several days of his experiment,Sheldon notices that his rat is engaging in strange behaviours,such as turning around in circles repetitively.Which of the following is an explanation for what likely happened in Sheldon's experiment?

You train your dog,Milo,to salivate at the sound of a bell.Then you ring the bell every five minutes and don't follow the ringing with food for Milo.He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at all when the bell rings.But the next morning,when you ring the bell,Milo salivates! What term is used to explain the reappearance of this response?

A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned her room.What is the cookie in this example?

Which scholar and concept are correctly matched?

Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?

The abbreviation UCR stands for

Tolman proposed that during learning trials,the rats in his experiments developed spatial representations of the maze.Those representations are called

The authors of your text discuss many myths surrounding what B.F.Skinner believed.Which statement about Skinner is fictitious?

Shelly has developed a fear of bridges due to the recent graphic news coverage of people falling from a collapsed bridge.Which of the following is the CS?

A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert.This type of learning is best explained by

Cancer patients may be asked to __________ prior to chemotherapy treatments to avoid conditioned taste aversions.

Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning,she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad.Over several weeks,she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys,immediately before leaving the house.Which phenomenon of learning best describes the dog's behaviour?

Mark and Kathy take their two-year-old son to the supermarket every Saturday.Each week,the same sequence of events unfolds: Their son screams,demanding that they buy him treats.Although they refuse to give in to his demands,he continues to scream.Finally,either Mark or Kathy gets in their son's face and yells at the top of their lungs,"Shut up!" He stops screaming instantly.What operant conditioning concepts are illustrated in this story?

If parents handle discipline by employing mainly a punishment approach,which of the following can be assumed?

One can be conditioned to become sexually aroused at the sight of a triangle if the triangle is presented shortly __________ an appropriate __________.

Trevor is trying to study in the library and is distracted by students who are talking at nearby tables.After a while,he does not notice them and is able to concentrate on his studying.What form of learning has Trevor experienced?