Exam 7: Learning

Behaviour that an organism produces,which has some impact on the environment,is known as:

Sam was an accomplished furniture maker and was paid well each time he produced a set number of pieces of furniture.Sam was on a _____ reinforcement schedule.

Molly's mail carrier delivers the mail promptly at noon each day.Molly never checks her mailbox in the morning but always checks it at 12:05 p.m.Molly's mail checking is maintained on which type of schedule?

Not providing a reinforcer every time a response occurs:

A rat in a complicated maze with many arms,some of which are baited with food,will:

Which technique is LEAST effective for learning school-related material?

The case of superstitious behaviour illustrates the fact that:

The three-term contingency states that,in the presence of a _____,a _____ produces a(n)_____.

Accustomed to the sound of the old can opener,a cat still rushes to her food dish,even when she hears the slightly different sound of the new can opener for the first time.This demonstrates:

Which statement about learning is FALSE?

In an artificial grammar task,participants are shown strings of letters labelled "grammatically correct" and "grammatically incorrect." Then they are shown new strings and are asked to classify them as correct or incorrect.Participants usually are:

In operant conditioning,occasionally not delivering a reinforcer when the behaviour occurs may actually strengthen that behaviour.

Brain imaging studies have revealed increased dopaminergic activity in the _____ when heterosexual men look at pictures of attractive women and in individuals who think that they are about to receive money.

_____ activity is a critical underlying mechanism in conditioning responses similar to the one conditioned in Little Albert.

The special case of presenting reinforcement after each response is called _____ reinforcement.

Use the following to answer questions : Scenario I Tyler is physically dependent on heroin and injects it intravenously multiple times per day.Most often,he uses with his dealer in a drug house on his street.One day when his dealer was out of town,Tyler met a group of fellow users going to a drug party about 2 hours away.Tyler tagged along,and noted that he felt odd injecting the drug in this setting,because the new people and environment were a marked departure from his usual routine.Minutes later,although the drug was of the same quality and he took no more or less than usual,Tyler overdosed and had to be rushed to the emergency room. -(Scenario I)An account of drug overdose based on classical conditioning differs from typical preparations such as the one first used by Pavlov in that:

It is believed that one function of mirror neurons is to detect intentionality in another's actions.

After her apartment was robbed,even barely audible late-night sounds make Kendra anxious,BEST illustrating the behavioural process of:

Reinforcers _____ and punishers _____ the future probability of the behaviour that led to these respective consequences.

Pavlov's dogs,which were conditioned to salivate at the sound of a tone,also may salivate at the sound of a doorbell,illustrating the process of generalization.