Exam 6: Learning

Whenever two-year-old Abby uses the toilet,her mom puts a sticker on a chart.When the sticker chart is full,Abby is allowed to pick out a toy from the store.Using the sticker as a Secondary reinforcer means that this is a type of

Dante was recently bitten in the leg by a snake and now has learned to fear snakes.If his fear is out of proportion with the danger posed by snakes,then Dante has developed

Rayvonte,a recent college graduate,is impressed when his cousin receives many offers for job interviews after putting her résumé on the university's job board.Rayvonte decides to post His résumé in hopes of finding his first professional job.He most likely posted his résumé on The job board as a result of

Mike wants to teach his two-year-old brother to dunk a basketball in a mini basketball net. A) Describe shaping and explain how Mike would be able to use this to teach his brother to dunk. B) How are primary and secondary reinforcers similar and different? Give an example of each that Mike could use to reinforce his brother.

Vincent wants to use systematic desensitization to treat his patient's phobia of elevators. After the patient learns how to relax her muscles,Vincent's next step should be to

For each cart of books that Spencer reshelves in the prison library,he receives a chip.He is allowed to collect chips and then trade them in for candy,extra recreation time,or visitation Time.The prison uses a token economy,which is a method of

Humans tend to fear things that are potentially dangerous,rather than things that are not threatening.Psychologist Martin Seligman suggests this is because humans

Marcy decides that yelling at her teenage son to clean is room is not effective.Instead, whenever he cleans his room without being asked,Marcy takes him to his favorite ice cream Shop.In this example,cleaning the room is the ________ and the ice cream is the ________.

Sunil wants to classically condition his dog to fear skunks so that he does not get sprayed again.This task should be much easier than teaching him to fear a house plant because a dog

Tina believes in John Locke's idea of tabula rasa.When Tina's baby is born,she expects the child will most likely

During Tammy's eye exam,a buzzer rings and a puff of air is blown into her eye,which makes her blink.This happens several times.Then Tammy blinks when she hears the buzzer because she expects that a puff of air will be blown into her eye.In this example,Tammy is showing ________ learning.

Thayer is holding her infant cousin and she smiles at the baby.The baby observes Thayer smiling and imitates the smile by smiling back.The baby most likely learned to smile in this Situation based on