Exam 13: The Limits of Learning

The idea that an enriched environment in childhood can produce high intelligence is supported by the case of _______.

An animal that can learn to perform one trick is sure to learn another trick of similar complexity.

Allen and Beatrice Gardner taught a chimpanzee to _________.

A man who had been stricken by polio as a child spent years in an institution for the mentally retarded even though he was quite bright. Explain how his intelligence could have been misjudged.

How might preparedness to learn be nonadaptive?

Robert Tryon's work demonstrates the role of heredity in _________.

Experiments in which young monkeys were reared in isolation from their mothers illustrates the importance of _______ periods for social development.

The psychologist who believed that learned behavior could be inherited was _________.

_______was one of the first to study imprinting.

Substances that damage the nervous system are called _________.

Learning is of vital importance because so many problems that face society involve_________.

Does learning inevitably mean progresshy or why not?

Skinner's efforts to teach pigeons to play ping pong demonstrate that the inability to learn a skill may sometimes be overcome by_________.

While walking in the woods, Larry happens to stumble across a nest of turkey eggs just as they are hatching. Larry watches the chicks as they emerge from their eggs and begin walking about. As he Leaves the nest area, Larry finds the young birds are determined to go with him. Larry's new friends are Victims of _________.

Joseph Wolpe raised doubts about the idea that people are prepared to acquire certain phobias.

The tendency to revert to a fixed (or modal) action pattern is called instinctive drift.

In their study of conditioning, Garcia and Koelling paired water with radiation. They found that the rats later avoided _________.

When a species is likely to learn a response, we say it is prepared to learn. When it is unlikely to learn a response, we say it is _______ to learn.

Researchers have found that organisms differ in their readiness to learn certain tasks. Martin Seligman called this tendency the _______of preparedness.

Armadillos curl up into a ball when attacked. Reginald teaches an armadillo to curl up into a ball when a buzzer sounds. Reginald is making use of the phenomenon known as _________.