Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

To be most effective, punishment should be

Greg has not been making any progress toward his weight loss for the past six months.So, he and his wife draw up a formal agreement in which he states that he will meet weekly weight loss goals with the rewards for meeting these goals listed and the consequences he will incur if he does not meet his weekly goal.Greg and his wife are utilizing which of the following to help Greg lose weight?

A core assumption of early theories of associative learning was that learning did not require any thinking, or cognition.Animals, it was widely assumed, did not have "minds" and certainly could not "think" in anyway like humans do.A classic series of studies conducted in the 1930s at the University of California at Berkeley, began to challenge this assumption.These experiments that involved rats finding their way through mazes and which demonstrated latent learning were conducted by psychologist

If simply refusing to feed your dog table scraps is not enough to stop it from jumping on you when you sit at a table, you could effectively (and humanely)punish it by spraying water on its nose

Compared to continuous reinforcement, partial reinforcement

Tanya and Bob have found that taking away their teenagers' cell phones or taking away other privileges are effective in reducing any misbehavior.Tanya and Bob are using

Describe what changes constitute learning and what changes do not, distinguish between associative learning and cognitive learning, list the two types of associative learning, and explain the importance of antecedents and consequences for each type.

During and after conditioning, the bell served as which of the following in Ivan Pavlov's experiment with the dogs?

Mike and Jeff are brothers who have just moved with their parents into a beautiful old house.Mike soon discovers that if he flushes the toilet while Jeff is taking a shower, it will cause the water in the shower to become scalding hot.Naturally, Jeff screams as his reflexes cause him to leap backward in pain.After Mike has repeated this procedure several times, Jeff has begun to twitch involuntarily every time he hears any toilet flush.In this example, jumping backward to the pain of the hot water would be the

Persons learn new responses, carry out or avoid previously learned responses, and learn the general rules that can be applied in various situations by observing a(n)

Classical conditioning is based on

In a psychology class, the students have to turn in a topic report every two weeks.Typically, they get in a writing frenzy a couple of days before the report is due; then they do not write anything until right before the next due date.This pattern of responding illustrates the partial reinforcement schedule known as __________.

The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to those that preceded operant reinforcement is called

G-rated cartoons average how many minutes of violence per hour?

Student pilots can learn all the ins and outs of flying a jumbo jet through a complex computer-assisted instructional (CAI)program that allows them to see the effects of their choices while flying under different weather conditions.These CAI programs are referred to as

To be effective, punishment should be

Dana, a three-year-old autistic child, is being taught to answer questions with a "Yes" or a "No." She was given verbal praise and the cookie when she answered "Yes" to questions like "Do you want a cookie?" (a preferred food)and "No" when she answered "No" to questions like "Do you want corn?" (a non-preferred food).Additionally, she was praised if she answered "Yes" to questions like "Does a cow say 'moo'?" or "No" to the question, "Is this a shoe?" when shown a picture of a boat.This productive behavior is being encouraged by arranging which of the following so they are response contingent?

If you cannot punish an animal or young child immediately,

A child watches other children wince with pain as they receive hypodermic injections.Although the child has never received an injection, he responds fearfully when a needle is brought near him.His reaction is an example of __________ classical conditioning.

When a mother praises her child each time she behaves properly in the grocery store, she is