Exam 7: Learning

A hungry monkey's lever-pressing behaviour is reinforced with a banana-flavoured treat.Which occurrence would produce the MOST dopamine activity?

After implementing a policy where students can earn extra recess time with their good behaviour,Miss Hobbes observes that her first-grade students have been better behaved.This illustrates which behavioural process?

An experienced heroin user will have a higher risk of overdose if he injects the drug in an unfamiliar environment.

Using an artificial grammar is one way of studying:

In an experiment studying classical conditioning,a tone sounds and 0.5 seconds later a puff of air is delivered to a participant's eye.The participant blinks.This process is repeated once per minute.After a number of trials,the participant blinks as soon as the tone sounds and before the puff of air is actually delivered.Within the context of this example,what is the CS?

In one study of observational learning,laboratory monkeys who had never seen a snake developed a fear response to snakes after watching a video of:

Tolman trained rats to run down a straightaway and subsequently make several turns until finally reaching a goal box baited with food.After the rats learned this task,the maze was altered.The main straightaway was blocked.However,there were many alternate paths radiating in all directions from the start box.The goal box remained in the same location relative to the start box,and one of the alternate paths led directly to it.Tolman found that rats:

Mirror neurons in a monkey's brain do NOT fire when the monkey:

A general process in which the repeated presentation of a stimulus leads to a gradual decrease in responding is termed:

The strategies of highlighting material,rereading it,and summarizing it have been shown to be of moderate utility as a study technique.

Tolman's views on operant conditioning are similar to Watson's views on classical conditioning.

People with amnesia exhibit decrements in implicit learning.

Both positive and negative reinforcement increase the likelihood of future behaviour.

Which brain region's functions are responsible for eyeblink conditioning?

The Rescorla-Wagner model showed that classical conditioning actually involved a cognitive aspect based on the subject's:

The school of psychology MOST associated with learning is:

William James conducted the Little Albert study.

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 CS?

In pioneering research with the sea slug Aplysia,Kandel and colleagues demonstrated that,after generating a strong gill-withdrawal response by delivering a shock to the tail of Aplysia,even light touches to the tail would provoke gill withdrawal for some period of time.This finding demonstrates the behavioural principle of:

Drugs such as cocaine,amphetamines,and opiates are reinforcing because they: