Exam 7: Learning

A shy and timid child works up the courage to raise his hand to answer a question.The teacher calls on him and the child delivers an excellent answer.The teacher exclaims,"That is the best answer I have heard all week! Great job! Come up to the front of the room to get a sticker!" Unfortunately,the child found all of this attention unpleasant and no longer answers questions in class.His behaviour of answering questions was:

Nine-month-old Albert cried when a large steel bar was struck with a hammer while he viewed a white rat.In this acquisition phase,the white rat was the:

One of the strongest early advocates of a cognitive approach to operant learning was:

Sam gets a free pretzel using his Pretzel Smorgasbord card with every 10th pretzel he buys.This arrangement is an example of which type of reinforcement schedule?

The "positive" in positive reinforcement and positive punishment means that:

Skinner's approach to the study of learning focused on _____ and _____.

The law of effect states that consequences that produce dopamine release will strengthen the behaviour that produced it.

When you put money in the candy machine,you expect to be reinforced on a _____ schedule.

The phase of classical conditioning in which the CS and the US are presented together is called:

Delay between the behaviour and the consequence affects the processes of reinforcement and punishment differently.

Students who rely on _____ as a study technique are MOST likely to _____ how much they have actually learned.

Extinction of an operant response involves no longer providing reinforcement for that response.

Which type of schedule arranges reinforcement on the basis of average time elapsed since the last reinforcement?

When the veterinarian advised an owner to feed her dog in the morning instead of in the evening,it took several days for the dog to stop salivating late in the afternoon around its previous dinnertime.The gradual decrease in salivation across days is an example of:

The amygdala is responsible for producing both the physiological and behavioural changes associated with fear conditioning.

In Pavlov's work with dogs,animals were not presented food unless they salivated when they heard the tone.

Edward Thorndike developed the law of effect.

The part of the brain that is essential to emotional conditioning is the thalamus.

Any stimulus or event that decreases the probability of the behaviour that led to it is termed a(n):

Through a process called stimulus generalization,Little Albert learned to fear anything that was white and furry.