Exam 5: Learning

Which of the following statements regarding Pavlov is accurate?

Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is most likely true?

Give an example of a conditioned response.

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that __________

Which of the following is a secondary reinforcer?

You need to remove a broken light bulb from a lamp. Without a pair of gloves, you are likely to cut yourself on the jagged glass. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you can use a cut potato to remove the light bulb from the socket. You have just demonstrated __________

Giving a car dealer a bonus after every three cars she/he sells is an example of a fixed interval schedule.

Whenever Angus tries to reach his girlfriend Jean on the phone, he must dial several times because she is quite the talker and her line is often busy. When Angus finally gets through to Jean, he will be reinforced on which schedule?

Four people are going to go out to a bar and drink and socialize. However, prior to leaving, one of the four is assigned the job of being the "designated driver." This process is an example of __________

When pairing a tone with the presentation of food, Pavlov found that it generally required pairing __________ times before the tone alone would elicit salivation.

When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the UCS (food, in this case), the CR will "die out" in a process called __________

Salivation in response to food being placed in the mouth and an eyeblink response to a puff of air, are both examples of__________

The first time José sees a cat, his mother tells him, "That's a cat. Can you say cat?" He repeats the word gleefully, and his mother praises him. The next day, he is watching a cartoon and sees a tiger on the television. He points at the tiger and says, "Cat!" This is an example of __________

Which of the following statements about learning is NOT true?

The abbreviation UR stands for __________

What was the conditioned stimulus (CS) in the case of Little Albert?

The abrupt appearance of an answer to a question or puzzle after having contemplated the issue for a period of time illustrates __________

When a stimulus is removed from a person or animal resulting in a decrease in the probability of response, it is known as __________

Skinner was to rats as Thorndike was to __________

A __________ fulfills a basic physical need for survival and does not depend on learning.