Exam 6: Learning

The model emphasizes that the surprising or unexpected nature of the predictor stimulus is what is responsible for the strength of the unconditioned stimulus-conditioned stimulus US-CS) connection.

The term is used to describe intermittent reinforcements.

What is believed to have happened to Little Albert?

Superstitions are something that can be acquired by

Tolman's research with rats running mazes demonstrated that reinforcement affects

According to Watson, if he were given a dozen infants and control of their world, he would be able to

A weakness of the Rescorla-Wagner model is its inability to explain why

A startling noise will always cause the human eye to blink.If one has learned to associate a blue light with a startling noise, the resulting blue-light-elicited eye blink is known as

Research by Shepard Siegel and colleagues has shown that tolerance to a drug's effects is most likely to be greatest in which setting?

Adjusting to a phone ringing during a lecture is an example of learning, whereas feeling excited when your own phone gives a text message alert is an example of learning.

In Pavlov's experiments, what was the conditioned response?

What is the name commonly applied to the type of learning that Skinner studied?

According to the text, what would be the best parenting method to encourage your child to do well in school?

A cognitive map is an)

Which of the following terms is used to describe the removal of a stimulus?

Getting paid monthly is what type of reinforcement schedule?

Curing a child's phobia of spiders by presenting the child with a spider and candy is an example of

Skinner's earliest work was conducted with rats in

The key to whether presentations of a stimulus will lead to sensitization or habituation is whether the stimulus is

In 1898, a man named Edward Thorndike suggested that behaviors that lead to rewarded outcomes will be repeated.What is the name of Thorndike's theory?