Exam 6: Learning

To avoid getting a headache, Lory always lets her dog outside when it sits by the door and howls. This is an example of which type of punishment or reinforcement?

People diagnosed with psychopathy show an impaired ability to learn to:

In Bandura's classic (1965) study of children exposed to a film of an adult hitting a Bobo doll, __________ .

The concept of latent learning was developed by __________ .

A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ________ and thus ________ the probability of a response.

Who was also known as "Little Albert"?

In classical conditioning, when a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits a response, the neutral stimulus eventually elicits a similar response or becomes a/an _______ stimulus.

Learning that involves processes such as thinking and remembering is called _________________ learning.

When Casey opens the closet door to get some dog food, her dog salivates. What is the conditioned stimulus in this example?

An experiment finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he hears a certain piece of music. The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of music. The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone. In this situation the UNCONDITIONED response is the:

Which phenomenon supports the theory that extinction is not a form of forgetting?

Which of the following is an example of learning?

The term operant refers to the fact that, in operant conditioning:

An important distinction between classical and operant conditioning is that:

The abbreviation US stands for _______________.

Extinction in operant conditioning involves _________________.

Whenever five-year-old Claire goes to the dentist, she becomes anxious and cries. Since she was not afraid of the dentist on her first visit, her fear is a learned behavior. The US in this case was probably _________________.

The concept of latent learning was developed by ___________.

How is it possible to tell the difference between examples of classical and operant conditioning? Describe the key differences between the two types of learning.

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 __________.