Exam 6: Learning

When we see someone being punished for a particular behavior,we tend to stop performing that behavior ourselves.This best illustrates the influence of

When Henry's little brother accidentally locked himself inside his mother's car,Henry used his mother's car key to unlock the door.Henry's action could best be described as a(n)

To teach an animal to perform a complex sequence of behaviors,animal trainers are most likely to use a procedure known as

Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it is called

A stimulus is any event or situation that

Some of Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of one particular tone and not to other tones.This illustrates the process of

Using rewards to bribe people to engage in an activity they already enjoy is most likely to inhibit

B.F.Skinner's work elaborated what E.L.Thorndike had called

After watching violent cartoons,Jeremy and Julie engaged in the very same violence they saw on TV,such as flying karate kicks.This best illustrates that one of the factors contributing to the violence-viewing effect is

An animal trainer is teaching a miniature poodle to balance on a ball.Initially,he gives the poodle a treat for approaching the ball,then only for placing its front paws on the ball,and finally only for climbing on the ball.The trainer is using the method of

After a week at college,Su-Chuan has formed a mental representation of the layout of the campus and no longer gets lost.Su-Chuan has developed

A child's learned fear at the sight of a hypodermic needle is a(n)

In Pavlov's experiments,the taste of food triggered the dog's salivation.Salivation to the taste of food was a(n)

In explaining why people demonstrate character strengths such as self-control,B.F.Skinner would most likely have emphasized

Giving a hungry rat food for pressing a bar before the rat has a chance to engage in other incidental behaviors like running or scratching best illustrates

When a CS is not paired with a US,the subsequent fading of a CR is called

Punishment ________ the rate of operant responding,and negative reinforcement ________ the rate of operant responding.

Last year,Dr.Moritano cleaned Natacha's skin with rubbing alcohol prior to administering each of a series of rabies vaccination shots.Which of the following processes accounts for the fact that Natacha currently becomes fearful every time she smells rubbing alcohol?

Evidence that organisms are biologically predisposed to learn the associations that most readily aid their survival has been provided by

The introduction of an unpleasant stimulus is to ________ as the withdrawal of an unpleasant stimulus is to ________.