Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

According to the behaviorists:

Explain why extrinsic rewards can undermine the pleasure of doing something for its own sake.

Geoff's friends tease him for visiting the public library during summer holidays. As a result, Geoff stops visiting the library. In this example, the teasing acted as:

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

In each of the following situations, choose the best alternative and give your reason for choosing it. -Your father, who rarely calls you, has finally left a voice-mail message. Should you reply quickly, or wait a while so he will know how it feels to be ignored?

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.

The neutral stimulus, when paired with an unconditioned stimulus, becomes a(n) ________ in classical conditioning.