Exam 5: Extension: Learning

A girl learns that whenever her older brother shares his cookie with her, her mother gives him a piece of candy. The girl's learning is a demonstration of ________.

The basic difference between punishment and reinforcement boils down to a difference between ________.

The transfer of a response from a natural stimulus to another, previously neutral stimulus, is called ________.

Positive reinforcement ________ the likelihood that the behavior preceding it will happen again while negative reinforcement ________ the likelihood that the preceding behavior will happen again.

In classical conditioning, during extinction the ________ is consistently omitted and the ________ gradually disappears.

The mental image of an area, such as a maze or the floor plan of a building, is called a ________.

On a variable-interval schedule, reinforcement is given for the ________.

The idea that a behavior will increase or decrease based on the consequences that follow that behavior is crucial to ________.

"Every morning a train goes by my house at 6:30 when I am just sitting down to breakfast. Lately, however, the train has been coming by at 4:30 and I am having a terrible time getting back to sleep because I'm so hungry." In this example of classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus is ________ and the conditioned response is ________.

Which of the following would be most appropriate for the use of biofeedback procedures?