Exam 8: Learning

Cognitive learning involves the acquisition of

In classical conditioning,discrimination refers to the learned ability to distinguish between a ________ and other irrelevant stimuli.

To modify your own behavior using operant conditioning principles,you should

The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was

Jacqueline is sexually aroused by the sight of her handsome boyfriend but not by the sight of her equally handsome brother.This best illustrates the value of

For professional baseball players,swinging at a pitched ball is reinforced with a home run on a ________ schedule.

The views of learning advanced by Ivan Pavlov and John B.Watson underestimated the importance of

In Pavlov's experiments on the salivary conditioning of dogs,the CS was

Compared with continuous reinforcement,intermittent reinforcement is associated with

A reinforcement is any event that

Like European Christians who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Nazis,civil rights activists of the 1960s had parents who

You would be most likely to use operant conditioning to teach a dog to

In Pavlov's experiments,the taste of food triggered salivation in a dog.The food in the dog's mouth was the

Learning that certain events occur together is called

Experiments suggest that children exposed to a model who says one thing and does another will

Cats received a fish reward whenever they maneuvered themselves out of an enclosed puzzle box.With successive trials,the cats escaped from the box with increasing speed.This illustrates

Acquiring new responses by watching the behaviors of a teacher is called

A negative reinforcer ________ the behavior it follows.

Socially responsive toddlers who readily imitate their parents tend to become preschoolers with a strong internalized conscience.This best illustrates the impact of

For the most rapid acquisition of a CR,the NS should be presented