Exam 8: Biological Influences on Learning

According to Staddon and Simmelhag's analysis of superstitious behavior in pigeons,______ behavior refers to the elicitation of responses appropriate to the receipt of reinforcement.

What causes schedule-induced behavior?

According to Timberlake,constraints on learning occur ______.

One day,in his cage,my parrot became sick.Since then,he always becomes sick when he is exposed to that particular item.What might that item be?

Timberlake,Wall,and King propose animal misbehavior is due to ______ in the situation.

Describe two theories for flavor aversion conditioning.

Timberlake argues ______.

Both operant and Pavlovian conditioning contribute to producing animal misbehavior.

The nucleus accumbens plays a crucial role in the development of flavor preferences.

Terminal behavior is not reinforcement oriented.

Compare and contrast a behavior systems approach with the general laws of learning approach.

______ behavior is not reinforcement oriented.

A rat nibbles on a new food item to check it out.Several hours later,the rat becomes sick.As a consequence,he never eats that food item again.This is an example of ______.

A behavior systems approach contends each instinctive behavior system is independent and serves a specific function or need within the animal.

Deterioration of operant behavior with continual reinforcement is called ______.

Faulk deprived rats of food,then trained them to bar press for food reinforcement.When water was available in the operant chamber,the animals consumed excessive amounts of water.This is called ______.

Lorenz's demonstration of imprinting is related to Ainsworth's findings that human infants prefer to attach to ______.

According to Timberlake,when an animal learns less rapidly than expected by the laws of conditioning,the animal is displaying ______.

Brain structures involved with flavor aversion conditioning do not include ______.

In humans,negative emotions ______.