Exam 7: Learning

Billy Bob's Big Burger Barn is your favourite restaurant,and lately you've noticed that every time you walk by there on your way to class,your mouth starts to salivate.In this incidence of classical conditioning,the sight of the restaurant is the _____ and your salivation is the _____.

Two-year-old Owen watches 6-year-old Evan behave aggressively with his stuffed animals.Owen would be LEAST likely to imitate Evan if:

Some research suggests that drugs given to enhance dopamine levels in patients with Parkinson's disease may cause patients to become more:

In Pavlov's experiments on second-order conditioning,dogs were conditioned to salivate at the sight of a black square by:

Delayed reinforcers are usually less effective than are immediate reinforcers.

Operant behaviour is to a passive response as classically conditioned behaviour is to an active response.

Holly's blender makes a noise similar to the can opener,but her cat doesn't get up from the sofa when hearing it.This demonstrates:

The functions of the hippocampus are critical for eyeblink conditioning.

Behaviour maintained under an intermittent schedule of reinforcement is more difficult to extinguish than is behaviour maintained under a continuous schedule of reinforcement.

An initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response because it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus is called a(n)_____ stimulus.

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)Several decades ago,the psychologist Sheppard Siegel first noted the role that classical conditioning plays in drug overdose.In this model,the unconditioned stimulus in the scenario is _____ and the conditioned stimulus is _____.

Relative insensitivity to delayed rewards helps explain why it is:

Implicit learning is _____ implicit memory.

If connections between the amygdala and hypothalamus are severed,the physiological changes associated with fear conditioning will not occur.

A type of learning in which the consequences of an organism's behaviour determine whether or not it will be repeated is called _____ conditioning.

An example of a nonassociationistic learning process is:

An animal trainer is conditioning an elephant to startle at the sound of a trombone.Every time she plays the trombone,she then shows the elephant a mouse,which startles the elephant.Eventually,the elephant startles at just the sound of the trombone.However,after playing the trombone 10 more times,without a mouse appearing,the elephant exhibits no response.The trainer then gives the elephant an adequate rest period from the trombone.What is MOST likely to occur if the elephant hears the trombone again the following week?

Lots of cash in hand always makes Charlie's heart race with excitement,due to the phenomenon known as:

For most people,money is a powerful primary reinforcer.

Which factor is causally related to deciding how much time to devote to studying?