Exam 5: Learning

College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to ________.

Thorndike is known for his experiments demonstrating latent learning in rats.

Higher order conditioning is difficult to achieve because it battles against ________.

In the Watson and Rayner study of Little Albert, the UR was ________ and the CR was ________.

Explain what biofeedback is and describe how it can be used to shape behavioral changes in humans. What are the criticisms and limitations of biofeedback?

The distinction between ________, on the one hand, and ________, on the other, is of central importance to social learning theorists.

The use of intermittent pairing ________ the rate of learning while it ________ the final strength of the learned response.

________ reinforcers result in the learning of new behaviors or the strengthening of existing ones.

The person most closely associated with the law of effect is ________.

"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 ________.

In higher order conditioning, objects that have no intrinsic value but become reinforcers because of their association with other, more basic reinforcers, are known as ________ reinforcers.

Conditioned taste aversions are found ________.

When the US is no longer paired with the CS or when reinforcement is no longer presented following a learned response, a process called ________ occurs.

The control of conditioned responses by cues or stimuli in the environment is known as ________.

Each of the following is true of learned helplessness except________.

An operant conditioning technique in which a learner gains control over some physiological process is called ________.

The process in which a learned response that has been extinguished suddenly reappears on its own with no retraining is called ________.

Behaviors learned through punishment are among the easiest learned behaviors to extinguish.

The researcher whose work with monkeys explored their ability to develop learning sets was ________.

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