Exam 6: Learning

Skinner conducted a famous study in which he punished bar pressing in rats attempting to obtain food by having the bar slap their paws each time they pressed it.Based on the results of this study,Skinner concluded that

In the past,every time a rat has pressed a lever it has received a piece of food.The rat's rate of pressing has reached a high level.What procedure would produce extinction of the response?

Research on conditioned taste aversions suggests that animals are predisposed to associate tastes with

You attend every new movie that appears at your local theater.You find that most of them are dull (not reinforcing)but really enjoy about one-fourth of them.This is an example of a __________ schedule of reinforcement.

Two behaviorists are attempting to explain the causes of why an infant engages in activities to increase the probability of nursing.How might a radical behaviorist differ from a methodological behaviorist in their explanation? Be sure to mention the role of intervening variables.

Research on spanking (as a form of physical punishment)indicates that spanking

Pavlov repeatedly paired a buzzer with the presentation of food and measured salivation to each.In this experiment the food was the

The procedure for producing extinction in classical conditioning is to present

Thorndike set up experiments in which cats escaped from puzzle boxes.He argued that learning by the cats was not due to insight or understanding,because if it were

You enjoy getting e-mail messages,so you occasionally check your e-mail to find out if you have any new messages.Which schedule of reinforcement is present in this case?

What is the procedure for producing stimulus generalization of a conditioned response?

A psychologist who insists that psychologists should only study behavior and never make references to mental processes,would best be described as a

A secondary reinforcer gains its value from association with a primary reinforcer.

Psychologists distinguish between ____________________ ,which are reinforcing because of their own properties,and ____________________,which became reinforcing because of previous experiences. primary reinforcers,secondary reinforcers

A psychologist conducts an experiment on classical conditioning.Which of the following will NOT be present on the first trial?

An event that decreases the probability of a response is known as ____________________. punishment

Punishment is also called

A study presented participants with a variety of Pokemon characters and asked them to respond to a "target" character.Some other characters were consistently paired with either positive words or pictures or with negative words or pictures.The results of this study show that

Suppose you decide to reward yourself by going out for a snack every time you finish reading a chapter in your text.This is an example of which type of schedule of reinforcement?

Drug tolerance for morphine or heroin develops quickly when