Exam 5: Learning

Gina prefers her science class because the instructor gives quizzes every Friday. In her psychology course, she never knows when there will be a quiz, because the instructor prefers to use "pop quizzes" sporadically. Gina's science instructor is testing her on a ________ schedule.

Which of the following statements is true?

Higher order conditioning is difficult to achieve because it battles against extinction.

Insight is only seen in higher animals such as primates.

College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half-hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to ________.

In Bandura's classic study of children exposed to a film of an adult model hitting an inflated doll, both the children who saw the model rewarded and the children who saw the model punished ________.

Research on cognitive learning in animals indicates that ________.

Any stimulus that follows a behavior and decreases the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated is called a(n) ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

The view of learning that emphasizes the ability to learn by observing a model or receiving instructions, without firsthand experience by the learner, is called ________ theory.

A type of learning that involves associating one event with another is called operant or classical ________.

Failure to take steps to avoid or escape from an unpleasant or aversive stimulus that occurs as a result of previous exposure to unavoidable painful stimuli is called ________.

The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is ________.

Sara has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food, the cats come running to the kitchen. Sara knows that this is classical conditioning and that the conditioned stimulus is the ________.

Operant conditioning operates on the principle that behaviors occur more often when they are ________.

Conditioned taste aversions are typically learned after ________ pairing(s) between the aversive food and the nauseous reaction to it.

Which of the following is NOT a factor shared by both classical and operant conditioning?

Classical conditioning usually occurs after only one pairing of the US and the CS.

Behaviors learned through punishment are always the easiest learned behaviors to extinguish.

Which of the following statements is true?