Exam 5: A: Learning

Putting on sunglasses to relieve glare is an example of which of the types of punishment and reinforcement?

When Casey opens the closet door to get some dog food,her dog salivates.What is the conditioned stimulus in this example?

Who formulated the law of effect?

Analogy: Negative reinforcement is to punishment as _______ is to _______.

Once conditioning has been acquired,presenting just the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus produces:

A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ________ and thus ________ the probability of a response.

Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?

When a stimulus similar to the CS also elicits the CR,the phenomenon is called _______.

Rachel has found that when she opens up the cupboard door to get the cat food,the cats come running to the kitchen.Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the unconditioned stimulus is the _______.

Thorndike's main apparatus in his operant conditioning research was:

Many individuals decide that they feel hungry and eat lunch when they see both hands of the clock on the 12,indicating that it is noontime.This may occur regardless of how recently they ate breakfast.In this example,the conditioned response is:

A reinforcer that adds something rewarding to a situation is called a ________ reinforcer.

The apparatus that has come to symbolize the theory of operant conditioning is the: