Exam 5: Learning

Little Albert's acquired fear of a white rat was a classic example of a(n) ________ response.

Which of the following statements is true about behavior modification?

Little Albert (Watson, 1920) learned through classical conditioning to fear ______.

A child is wetting his or her bed. According to our textbook, punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behavior. You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident. This is because punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviors.

Give an example of latent learning that you might see in your own life.

Sandy's favorite activity is to go to Las Vegas and play the slot machines. Her gambling behavior is being reinforced on a __________ schedule.

When you were first learning to make your bed, your parents told you that you did a good job when you got the bedspread pulled up, even though the bed was still a little messy. For the next week they showed you how to be a little neater each time you made the bed. What operant conditioning procedure did your parents use?

In classical conditioning the stimulus that normally evokes an automatic response even without new learning is called the:

Some researchers believe that classical conditioning takes place only because the pairing of the:

________ is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice.

Ivan Pavlov is most closely associated with __________.

Learning is a process by which experience results in:

Operant conditioning assumes that:

What was the conditioned stimulus (CS) in the case of Little Albert?

Cheryl is trying to teach her son to do the laundry by having him watch her. According to observational learning theory, to be effective what must occur?

Your professor has informed you at the beginning of the term that you will have eight tests--but they will all be unannounced. This is most similar to a _______ reinforcement schedule.

Bobby and Sue were parked at Lover's Lane. When Bobby kissed Sue, his breathing accelerated. Sue always wore Chanel #5 when she went out with Bobby. Whenever Bobby smelled Chanel #5, he began to breathe faster. Sue's kiss was the:

Which of the following is NOT a negative reinforcer?

Seligman's concept of learned helplessness has been extended into the field of psychopathology to explain the emergence of schizophrenia in late adolescence.

Which of the following is NOT an example of operant behavior?