Exam 9: Learning and Conditioning

When Luke kissed Laura,her heart rate increases.Luke always wore Old Spice After Shave.Whenever Laura smelled Old Spice,her heart would race.Laura's increased heart rate when she smelled Old Spice was the

There is a strong correlation between video game violence and aggression.

Research has demonstrated that slugs can be classically conditioned.

The week after she earns her driver's license,16-year-old Hannah arrives home an hour after curfew.As a consequence,Hannah must wash the car on Saturday and is not allowed to drive it for a week.Washing the car is a _______________ and losing driving privileges is a _______________.

Research cited in your text found that jail time was more effective than fines and probation.

In the experiment with Little Albert,the unconditioned stimulus was

Punishment occurs every day in families,schools,and workplaces.But often the intended results fail to occur.Explain,in detail,six reasons why punishment fails.When punishment must be used,what guidelines should be followed?

What do we call learning that has taken place but is not demonstrated?

Five-year-old Samantha is watching a storm from her window.A huge bolt of lightning is followed by a tremendous thunderclap.Startled,Samantha jumps at the noise.This happens several times.As the storm moves farther away,Samantha jumps at the sight of a lightning bolt but hears the thunder after her jump! In this example,the unconditioned stimulus is the _______________ and the conditioned stimulus is the _______________.

Deciding whether to provide continuous reinforcement,or one of the intermittent schedules of reinforcement,is an important issue in effective operant conditioning.If you want a response to persist after it has been learned,what schedule would best suit your needs? Paige wants to make sure that her roommate,Kelly,continues to keep clutter off Paige's desk now that Kelly has learned to keep it clutter-free.Describe a schedule of reinforcement that would be effective given Paige's goal.

Tim yells at his daughter Allison for soiling her pants.He also threatens to spank her if she ever does it again.Next week,she soils her pants again.According to studies on punishment,why did this fail?

When salivation occurs in response to a previously neutral stimulus,it is called a(n)

All principles of conditioning are limited by an animal's genetic dispositions and physical characteristics.

In a study of nearly 29,000 male criminals in Denmark,what factor did researchers find had the greatest impact on whether lawbreakers were rearrested for a subsequent crime?

A basic principle governing operant conditioning is that

When Casey opens the closet door to get some dog food,her dog salivates.What is the conditioned stimulus in this example?

Dr.Konstanza wants to train a rat to play basketball.She could wait until she was old and gray,however,before she could reinforce the rat for playing basketball! What conditioning procedure does Dr.Konstanza need to use? Outline,step by step,what she can do to meet her goal.

Joan begs her father for a frosted cookie at the bakery but he refuses to buy her one.Joan continues to whine and complain until finally he breaks down and gets her the cookie.For her dad,the cessation of Joan's whiny behavior is a _______________,and,for Joan,the cookie is a _______________.

_______________ is the classical-conditioning term for an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response.

The difference between a reinforcer and a punisher is that