Exam 6: Learning

Mr.Schneider frequently tells his children that it is important to wash their hands before meals,but he rarely does so himself.Experiments suggest that his children will learn to

Withdrawing a desirable stimulus following an operant response is

For professional baseball players,swinging at a pitched ball is reinforced with a home run on a ________ schedule.

In classical conditioning,a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning is called a(n)

An involuntary response is to ________ as a voluntary response is to ________.

When Aaron's teacher began responding to his habit of kicking other children with an immediate time-out,the frequency of this misbehavior steadily declined.The time-out best illustrates a

A year after surviving a classroom shooting incident,Kim-Li still responds with terror at the sight of toy guns and to the sound of balloons popping.This reaction best illustrates

When Julie saw that her brother was praised for cleaning his bedroom,she began cleaning her own bedroom.This best illustrates the impact of

After one chimpanzee sees a second chimp open a box that contains a food reward,the first animal opens a similar box with great speed.This best illustrates

When grocery shopping with his mother,4-year-old Hakim sometimes throws temper tantrums if his mother refuses his requests for a particular snack food.Parent-training experts would suggest that his mother should

By 8 to 16 months,infants imitate various novel gestures they see others perform.This best illustrates

John B.Watson would have expressed the greatest disapproval of attempts to scientifically study whether

Experiments suggest that children exposed to a model who says one thing and does another will

A mother frequently picks up her crying infant boy because the baby typically stops crying as soon as he is held.In this case,the mother is ________ when her son stops crying.

An experimenter plans to condition a dog to salivate to a light by pairing the light with food.The dog will learn to salivate to the light most quickly if the experimenter presents the light

Behaviorists such as John B.Watson would have been LEAST likely to attribute a child's behavior to

Skinner developed a procedure to guide a rat's actions toward a desired behavior.The procedure is known as

Respondent behavior is a(n)________ response,whereas operant behavior is a(n)________ response.

Two years ago,the de Castellane Manufacturing Company included its employees in a profit-sharing plan in which workers receive semiannual bonuses based on the company's profits.Since this plan was initiated,worker productivity at de Castellane has nearly doubled.This productivity increase is best explained in terms of

Carl so strongly associates watching baseball games with eating hot dogs that he habitually eats them while at the ballpark even when he's not hungry.His eating habit best illustrates the impact of