Exam 6: Learning

It's easier to train a pigeon to peck a disk for a food reward than to flap its wings for a food reward.This illustrates the importance of ________ in learning.

Primary reinforcers could best be described as

Most psychologists would advise parents who want to change a child's bad behavior to make greater use of

An automatic response is to ____________ as behavior that produces consequences is to ____________.

Blake is a carpet installer who wants to be paid for each square foot of carpet he lays rather than with an hourly wage.Blake prefers working on a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

Through direct experience with animals,we come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp.This best illustrates

The violence-viewing effect is especially likely when the observed violence

Eva's heart rate accelerated when she was confronted by a large snake while hiking.Her accelerated heart rate is an example of

A reinforcement is any event that

A psychologist who emphasizes cognitive processes would be likely to suggest that classical conditioning depends on

Shaping is a procedure in which reinforcers are

An event that one of Pavlov's dogs could see or hear but did not associate with food was called a(n)

Latent learning can occur in the absence of

A variable-interval schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a(n)

Antonio's football coach frequently yells at him for swearing.As a result,Antonio now experiences anxiety when he's near his coach.The coach is a(n)________ for Antonio's anxiety.

Research on the effects of viewing media violence indicates that

A Skinner box is a(n)

The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called

Researchers condition a flatworm to contract when exposed to light by repeatedly pairing the light with electric shock.The electric shock is a(n)

In classical conditioning,discrimination refers to the learned ability to distinguish between a ________ and other irrelevant stimuli.