Exam 5: Learning

According to your text, children watching violence in the media are potentially impacted by all of the following EXCEPT:

In the context of reinforcement schedules, commuter trains that arrive at platforms at specific times are on a__________.

In observational learning, a person who engages in a response that is imitated is a model.

__________ is the recurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time.

In a __________, a specific amount of time must elapse between the previous and subsequent times that reinforcement is available.

Which of the following illustrates continuous reinforcement?

Peter was attacked by a black cat when he was young. Due to this, he developed a fear of cats. A few years later, his parents got him a black kitten, and his fear gradually extinguished. On his way to work one day, he saw a black cat running toward him and felt his old fear resurfacing. In this scenario, the recurrence of Peter's fear of cats is known as ________.

Which of the following is true of negative reinforcers?

According to Arne Öhman and Susan Mineka, humans are not biologically prepared by evolutionary forces to develop fears of any kind.

With a ________, an organism's response rate falls off after each reinforcement and then picks up again as the time when reinforcement will occur approaches.

In the terminology of observational learning, a person who engages in a response that is imitated is a__________.

Discrimination is the tendency for a conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was conditioned.

Which of the following statements is true of shaping?

A schedule in which reinforcement is provided after a fixed number of correct responses is known as a fixed interval schedule.

Julie was attempting to teach her boyfriend manners. In the beginning, she would complement him if he was near her car door. After a period of time she would only praise him if he would wait patiently outside of her door. Eventually, she would only pay him compliments if he opened her door. In this scenario, Julie reinforces _________ of the goal.

Cynthia had an intense fear of cats. Her psychologist repeatedly paired her love for classical music with the gradual exposure of Cynthia to a cat until her fear for cats was cured. In this scenario, Cynthia's fear was cured using ________.

__________ is the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur.

__________ is a behavior therapy method in which fear-evoking stimuli are presented continuously in the absence of actual harm so that fear responses are extinguished.

Michaela works as waitress and she knows that the more tables that she waits on the better the likelihood of more tips. This schedule is a__________.

Jeff's dog barks and growls at the sound of a stranger's car pulling into his driveway, yet the dog wags its tail and gets excited at the sound of Jeff's car. In this scenario, the difference in the dog's reactions to the sound of Jeff's car and that of a stranger's car is due to _________.