Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

Patients may generalize the nausea caused by chemotherapy to the place where the therapy takes place.When this occurs,the unconditioned stimulus is:

Reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behaviour is a procedure called:

For Skinner,reinforcers are defined:

In classical conditioning,the US-UR connection is ________ and the CS-CR connection is ________.

What does S-R stand for?

Which of the following is NOT true?

When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.The salivation was a/an:

When a stimulus similar to the conditioned stimulus fails to evoke the conditioned response,then stimulus generalization has occurred.

Which of the following is NOT a situation that can be explained by classical conditioning?

B.F.Skinner was a cold-blooded individual who raised his daughter,Deborah,in an "Air-Crib" without benefit of cuddling and holding.

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

Intrinsic reinforcers are defined as reinforcers that:

"That is my opinion and nothing you say is going to change it!" In Chapter 1,What Is Psychology? one of the critical thinking guidelines that we learned about was "Examine the Evidence." Is your opinion supported by evidence? How reliable is this evidence? Did the evidence come from a reliable source? In Chapter 7,Learning and Conditioning,we read that many people assume that fines,long prison terms,yelling,and spanking are good ways to get rid of undesirable behaviours.What does the evidence show? What six drawbacks often lead punishment to fail?

Having one's hair lightly stroked would be a secondary reinforcer.

Social-cognitive learning theory is the school of psychology that accounts for behaviour in terms of observable acts and events,without references to mental events.

Aversion to taste may occur after only one pairing of the food with illness.

Match the examples with the appropriate type of reinforcement or punishment. -Harry left the kitchen in a mess after baking a cake,so his mother told him he could not go out with his friends that evening.

The proverb "He who hath been bitten by a snake fears a rope" illustrates:

Research on reinforcers shows that:

John Watson and Rosalie Rayner were able to extinguish Little Albert's fear in four sessions by using classical conditioning techniques.