Exam 11: Learning Part 1

Learning to tie one's shoes is most likely acquired via the process of

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

When drug users depart from their normal drug routines, the risk of overdosing from their typical drug dosage

Kaleb developed a fear of snowstorms two winters ago when his car spun off the road and hit a tree during a blizzard. As the winter progressed and he had no further accidents, Kaleb thought his fear of snowstorms had pretty well disappeared. To his surprise, this winter when the first heavy snow started to fall, he found his heart was pounding and he was trembling. This illustrates the classical conditioning process known as

Katrina is trying to put a dollar bill into a vending machine in her office. Sometimes the machine will take a dollar bill on the first try, other times it can take up to five or six tries before the dollar bill is finally accepted. In this example, inserting a dollar bill into the vending machine is reinforced on

When an organism that has learned a conditioned response also responds with the same response to a new stimulus that is similar to the conditioned stimulus, it is referred to as

An operantly conditioned response that is very durable and relatively hard to extinguish is said to show

Your teenaged daughter has not cleaned her room in a month. You go in and begin yelling at her to clean her room. She begins to clean up, and you stop yelling. Your daughter's cleaning behavior can be viewed as responding to

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which

After training one of his dogs to salivate in response to a tone, Pavlov continued to present the tone periodically without the food, with the result that the dog

Positive reinforcement involves

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which

When describing schedules of reinforcement, the key factor in interval schedules is

Shaquille is a professional basketball player. He never knows for sure which of his shots will result in a basket, but the more shots he takes the more baskets he makes. In this example, Shaquille's shooting is being reinforced on

In classical conditioning, the stimulus that naturally evokes an unlearned response is the

Kylee used to bring drawings home from her kindergarten class every day, and her parents would put the pictures on the refrigerator and tell Kylee how nice the pictures were. Lately, her parents haven't been putting her artwork on the refrigerator, and now Kylee has stopped bringing drawings home with her. This example illustrates the operant conditioning process of

The rules that determine whether responses lead to the presentation of a reinforcer are called

If an employee of a company that conducts telephone surveys receives $1.00 for every three completed surveys he conducts, he is being paid on a ____ schedule.

Organisms typically continue to make operant responses, even when those responses are no longer reinforced. This continued responding is called

An unlearned reaction to a stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning is