Exam 6: Learning

Which of the following is a drawback of the chemotherapy drugs given to cancer patients?

The initial stage of classical conditioning,in which a previously neutral stimulus is able to elicit a conditioned response,is known as ____.

Essentially,Watson and Rayner classically conditioned Little Albert to develop a(n)____ to white rats.

When a once extinguished response reappears,this reappearance is most likely ____.

A type of learning in which a behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcement and weakened if followed by punishment is known as ____.

Fear can be learned through ____,as demonstrated by Watson and Raynor's study with Little Albert.

Food,water,warmth,and sex are all examples of ____.

The process by which a stimulus increases the probability of the behavior that it follows is ____.

Evolutionary pressures will not remove fear of snakes until,over the long term,the fear ____.

Higher-order conditioning is also called ____.

In his experiments on classical conditioning,what did Pavlov use as the conditioned stimulus (CS)?

You are taking a class where exams are predictably given every 3 weeks,so you therefore increase your studying right before the exam and taper off studying right after the exam.This is an example of what type of partial reinforcement schedule?

A bird that becomes sick after eating a poisonous Monarch butterfly avoids eating other orange and black insects.Which phenomenon is being discussed in this example?

Imouey and Bart watch a lot of violent TV shows,while Doug watches very few violent TV shows.Imouey identifies strongly with one of the main characters in these shows who is very violent,while Bart and Doug both identify most strongly with a character in a nonviolent show.Which of the following expectations of these boys' later adult behavior is most consistent with the research findings of TV violence and aggression?

The type of learning in which your actions,not conditioned stimuli,produce consequences is ____.

A schedule that reinforces behavior after a specified number of responses is known as a ____.

Why did the rats in Garcia's and Koelling's (1966)experiment associate nausea to taste rather than the aversive condition of electric shock to taste?

In most situations in which people have problems with maintaining self-control,it is due to the fact that they choose ____ over ____.Problems arise because we choose short-term reinforcers that provide immediate gratification instead of choosing long-term reinforcers that provide delayed gratification.

Identify the phenomenon in which conditioned responses occur at full strength right away.

Which of the following greatly increases the number of situations in which classical conditioning explains behavior?