Exam 11: Learning Part 1

Last year Becky went to a psychologist and was cured of her dog phobia. Today, however, while jogging in the park she was overcome with anxiety when she saw a young man jogging toward her with his golden retriever on a leash. Apparently, Becky's dog phobia

Micah really liked his mom's homemade apple pie, and he would eat a huge slice whenever she made some. When he went to visit with a friend, he tried some apple pie that the friend's brother had made, and it tasted terrible. Now Micah will only eat his mom's apple pie; if anyone else offers him apple pie he politely turns that person down. Micah's behavior toward apple pie illustrates the concept of

Universal Studios wants to train a cat to pull a rope as part of an animal act. The probability that the cat will just pull a rope is very low. What technique would be the best choice to use to help the cat learn to emit the desired response?

In terms of reinforcement schedules, interval schedules always relate to the

You are watching a pigeon pecking a disk in a small chamber. There is a cumulative recorder connected to the disk. While you are watching, the pigeon is pecking at a slow, steady rate. Based on this information, you can predict that the line on the cumulative recorder will

According to Pavlov, the key to classical conditioning is the

Secondary reinforcers

In Pavlov's principle experiment the conditioned stimulus was the

Assuming you have eaten sour pickles before, imagine eating a large, juicy sour pickle. If just thinking about the pickles causes your mouth to water, your salivation would be

A rat is reinforced for responding when a green light is on and is not reinforced for responding when a red light is on. As a result of stimulus discrimination, the rat

At preschool, Jessi has learned that she must wash her hands before snack-time in order to get a snack. At home, she has started to wash her hands before eating. Jessi's behavior illustrates the process of

Josiah checks his electronic mail several times throughout the day. Some days there is mail each time he checks; sometimes several days go by with no new messages arriving. In this example, Josiah's behavior of checking his electronic mail is being reinforced on

In Pavlov's principle experiment, when the dog salivated after receiving meat powder, the salivation was the

The law of effect was developed by

When Lisa was a child, she was bitten by a German Shepard dog. She came to associate German Shepard's with pain. As an adult, Lisa is now afraid of all dogs. This example illustrates the classical conditioning process of

Tessa really likes to mow the lawn during the summer months, but her parents will only let her mow the lawn if all the dishes are washed. Consequently, every Saturday Tessa has the table cleared and all of the dishes washed as soon as everyone has finished breakfast. In this case,

When as a young child you first realized that you could use money to buy candy and soda, money began to become an effective

Classical conditioning is to ____ responses; as operant conditioning is to ____.

Maxwell runs a lawn care service and he charges his clients based on the square footage of their yard, rather than charging an hourly rate for his services. In this example, Maxwell is working on

Pavlov became interested in conditioning when he observed laboratory dogs