Exam 5: Learning

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

Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the conditioned stimulus is the ________.

A salesperson who gets an increase in salary for every 100 policies he or she sells is being reinforced according to what schedule of reinforcement?

A child sees a cookie jar on a shelf. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach it, the child looks around the room. She suddenly realizes that she can pull a chair over by the shelf, then stand on the chair to reach the cookie jar. This type of learning is called ________.

Learning is a process by which experience results in ________.

Conditioned taste aversions are typically learned after ________ pairing(s) between the aversive food and the nauseous reaction to it.

Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come running to the kitchen. Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the unconditioned stimulus is the ________ and the conditioned stimulus is the ________.

The self-modification step in which one focuses on the behavior to be acquired rather than the behaviors to be eliminated is called ________.

________ occur(s) in operant conditioning.

The idea that learning occurs, and is stored up, even when behaviors are not reinforced, is called ________.

On a fixed-ratio schedule, reinforcement is given for the ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

Nagging someone to do something until they do it is an example of ________.

A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert. This type of learning is BEST explained by ________.

Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?

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

Giving different responses to the same stimuli to which you were classically conditioned illustrates ________.

Ivan Pavlov is most closely associated with ________.

Scott works at a job where he is paid a salary every two weeks. Scott is being reinforced on a ________ schedule.

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, salivation to the bell was the ________.