Exam 6: Learning

Pavlov was interested in how long salivation would occur once food no longer followed the metronome.What is the name of this behavioral process he studied?

Positive reinforcement and positive punishment are similar in that both

Dante was sitting on a rock to rest during a hike.Suddenly he felt immense pain and looked down to see a snake had bitten him in the leg.He is now terrified of anything that even resembles a snake.Dante has developed an)

Why was Little Albert NOT counterconditioned, or systematically desensitized, for his acquired fear of rats?

Which of the following items would most likely be defined as a primary reinforcer?

The process by which an individual needs increasing amounts of a drug to achieve the same psychological or physical effects is known as

The Premack principle explains why

The psychologist Shepard Siegel recommends that treatment for drug addiction involves exposing addicts to certain drug cues, such that subsequent exposures no longer produce drug cravings.What behavioral process is implicated in this recommendation?

If you were bitten by a dog as a child, leading you to fear dogs, but your family later adopted a friendly puppy, each exposure to the puppy would likely the prediction error for future encounters with the dog.

To which food would you be more likely to show conditioned taste aversion?

What type of information CANNOT be learned through observation?

Token economies are an example of the ways mental health hospitals and other training centers use

For money to become a primary reinforcer, it would need to