Exam 5: A: Learning

Mary arrives home to find her son washing the dirty dishes left from his party the night before.When she discovers his first-semester grade report on the table and sees that he got straight A's,Mary rewards him by relieving him of the unpleasant task of finishing the dishes.Which operant process does the example illustrate?

Learning that depends on mental processes that are not able to be observed directly is called _________ learning.

Elizabeth was given a $1000 raise after her last performance evaluation.Her raise is a:

Repeatedly presenting a CS by itself will result in ________.

Cognitive learning involves:

Operant conditioning assumes that:

The spread of conditioning to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus is called:

The learning process studied in the Skinner box is known as:

Bobby and Sue were parked at Lover's Lane.When Bobby kissed Sue,his breathing accelerated.Sue always wore Chanel #5 when she went out with Bobby.Bobby's faster breathing rate when he smells Chanel #5 is the:

Bobby and Sue were parked at Lover's Lane.When Bobby kissed Sue,his breathing accelerated.Sue always wore Chanel #5 when she went out with Bobby.Chanel #5 is the:

When someone uses punishment to change a behavior,the behavior is likely to ______.

The schedule of reinforcement that yields the slowest increase in a behavior and the fastest extinction of the behavior when the schedule is stopped is ________.

The person most directly associated with operant conditioning is ______.

Anything that increases the likelihood that a behavior will increase is called a(n)_______.

The process by which experience results in a relatively permanent change in what one is capable of doing is called:

You have a class in which you have a quiz every Friday.Your studying for quizzes is reinforced on what type of schedule?

On a fixed-ration schedule reinforcement is given ________.

This is the first exam you have ever taken in Professor Smith's class.You know nothing about her tests,and she has never done anything harmful to you or anyone else.Nonetheless,you are anxious about the test.Your anxiety in this situation is an example of:

In classical conditioning,one must pair the _______ before conditioning can occur.

In the experiment with Little Albert,the unconditioned stimulus was _______.