Exam 7: Learning

Describe what behavior in habituation studies allows psychologists to determine that newborns can distinguish between new and familiar stimuli.

Psychology's interest in operant conditioning may be traced to ________'s early studies of hungry cats learning to escape from cages.

___________ is credited with laying the foundation for the study of classical conditioning in psychology.

Classical conditioning applies mostly to ________. Operant conditioning applies mainly to __________.

The idea that learning may partly reflect synaptogenesis was first proposed by the early neuroanatomist _________.

How does the development of episodic and semantic learning compare to the development of non-associative learning and classical conditioning?

Describe how the diagnoses of ADD and ADHD differ.

Research has confirmed that there are fewer mathematically gifted females than males.

Having a brain and spinal cord is not necessary for non-associative learning to occur.

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian psychologist.

Long-term potentiation refers to the process whereby:

Watson's studies with "little Albert" would not be conducted today because they violate the __________ guidelines of psychological research.

Describe how extinction occurs in the context of classical conditioning.

Habituation refers to an increased response to a stimulus after it has been encountered repeatedly over time.

What type of information do we most often learn about in educational courses?

June's cat runs to the kitchen not only at the sound of the electric can opener, but also when a similar-sounding blender is used. June's cat is demonstrating stimulus ________.

A brain structure especially important in spatial learning is the __________.

One approach to treating phobias is the presentation of a series of extinction trials in a process known as __________.

Extinction does not represent "unlearning".

What does the data in a learning curve illustrate?