Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

Your heart races every time you hear the phone ring because recently you received some distressing news over the phone. One way to eliminate this fearful response to the ringing phone would be to:

Justin missed his curfew last night and, as a result, his mother has taken away his cell phone for the week. This is an example of:

In operant conditioning, the tendency of a response to occur in the presence of one stimulus, but not in the presence of another similar stimulus that differs from it on some dimension is called ________.

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

Joan begs her father for a frosted cookie at the bakery, but he refuses to buy her one. Joan continues to whine and complain until finally he breaks down and gets her the cookie. For her dad, the cessation of Joan's whiny behaviour is a ________.

According to Pavlov, learning occurs when:

Thorndike was known for his work with:

Alex cleans his room so his mother will stop nagging him. His mother used _______________ to get him to clean the room.

B. F. Skinner used a chamber equipped with a device that delivers food or water when an animal makes a desired response. This device is called a(n):

A drawback in using primary punishers and primary reinforcers in research is that:

In classical conditioning, ________ occurs when a stimulus that resembles the conditioned stimulus elicits the conditioned response.

In classical conditioning, when the conditioned response is extinguished but reappears later, the reappearance of the response is called:

Margaret gives her son a quarter every time he makes his bed; she is using ________.

_____________ reinforcement occurs when you escape from something unpleasant.

A variation of the counterconditioning procedure developed by Watson and Jones has been used to treat adult phobias. This variation is called:

What must be paired together for classical conditioning to occur?

A variation of the counterconditioning procedure developed by Watson and Jones has been used to treat adult phobias. This variation is called:

Individuals being treated for cancer may develop nausea when they arrive at the place where they have been receiving chemotherapy. In this case, the unconditioned stimulus is ________.

Psychologists have taken advantage of the "Garcia effect" in order to develop humane ways of discouraging predators from preying on livestock. Explain this effect and then describe the classic study in which coyotes developed conditioned aversions to sheep.

Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?