Exam 7: Learning

When a child cries in her babysitter's presence,the babysitter will pick her up and talk to her.Because of the attention,the child becomes more likely to cry in the future.If the child cries when any adult is in the room,what process has occurred?

Amelia is studying for her upcoming mathematics exam by mixing problem types during the same study session.For example,she might do a few route calculations,followed by a proof,followed by a few word problems.This form of studying is termed:

_____ suggested that rats in a maze don't simply produce behaviours in response to stimuli or consequences,but rather develop a _____ of the maze.

The nucleus accumbens,medial forebrain bundle,and hypothalamus are all major pleasure centres in the brain.

Certain cells in the brain fire both when an animal performs an action and when it watches that action performed.These cells are called:

Regions in the _____ lobes are thought to be part of the mirror neuron system in humans.

Increased discrimination results in increased generalization.

Acquisition is the phase of classical conditioning in which the US elicits the UR.

Which example describes a judgement of learning?

Participants who are studied under a serial reaction time test are shown five boxes on a computer screen.When a box lights up,they are to click on it as quickly as possible.The boxes seemingly light up at random,but a pattern exists.Over time,participants respond more _____ on this task _____ of the pattern.

_____ conducted the Bobo doll study of observational learning.

What behavioural measure did Thorndike graph from trial to trial?

The BEST way for students to guard against incorrect judgements of learning is to base their decisions on:

Wild-raised chimpanzees imitate a human modelling tool use less precisely than do 2-year-old humans.

Distributed practice is better than massed practice is for:

Not only did Little Albert learn to fear white rats,he also cried when presented with a Santa Claus mask or a seal-fur coat.This behaviour was the result of:

Roser and colleagues (2015)speculate that adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)outperform controls on implicit spatial relationship tasks because adults with ASD:

The learning process involves the _____ of new knowledge,skills,or responses as a function of _____.

Pavlov extinguished the conditioned response by repeatedly presenting the bell and not following it with food.

In an experiment studying classical conditioning,a tone sounds and 5 seconds later a mild skin shock is delivered to a participant.The skin shock results in a stress response consisting of a temporary increase in heart rate.This process is repeated once every 5 minutes.After a number of trials,the participant demonstrates an elevated heart rate when the tone sounds and before the shock is actually delivered.Within the context of this example,what is the CR?