Exam 7: Learning

Identify the US, UR, CS, and CR of Pavlov's initial study with the lab assistant.

The postulate, "cells that fire together, wire together" is attributed to the psychologist ___________

Which of the following scenarios exemplify negative punishment?

Describe why correlational evidence does not imply causality when describing the relationship between television watching and child aggression.

In studies examining the conditioning of the eye blink reflex, the US is a(n) _______. The CS is a(n) _________.

Classical conditioning works with animals, but not humans.

Effie no longer eats egg salad sandwiches - some time ago, she found herself "praying to the porcelain God" after consuming a sandwich in which the mayonnaise must have spoiled. Which alternative below correctly identifies a stimulus in this situation?

Paychecks and grades are delivered on a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

You don't receive a smile or a "thank you" each time you hold a door for the person behind you, just most of the time. Door-holding is reinforced on a(n) ___________ schedule.

In Watson's studies, what initially neutral stimulus did "little Albert" eventually come to fear?

Your text mentions a study in which music was paired with relaxation exercises performed by expectant mothers. The study demonstrated classical conditioning may occur prenatally. Which of the following alternatives correctly identifies the CS and CR in this study?

Which of the following terms is used to describe an inability to readily acquire information about mathematics? difficulty would be a better term

Heavy TV watching is associated with low socioeconomic status and low parental involvement.

Which of the following implications for human learning might one safely draw from the work on non-associative learning among sea slugs?

Humans learn by observing __________ models.

Which of the following statements best expresses the relationship between learning disabilities and mental retardation?

What do such developmental milestones as crawling, walking, and so forth tell us about potential biological or cultural constraints on the development of learning?

According to your text, neuroimaging studies have shown that attentional deficit disorders are associated with a(n) ________ in blood flow in the _________.

The majority of learning in our everyday life is active.

Mrs. Martin, a third-grade teacher, is instructing cursive writing. At first, she reinforces even crude attempts to reproduce letters with an encouraging word; as time goes on, though, she reinforces only well-formed letters. By reinforcing progressively better attempts at writing letters, Mrs. Martin is using ___________.