Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

A teen who is punished at home a lot will be gone as much as possible.This is an example of

Marcy has a habit of taking toys from her sister.Which of the following would be the best way for Marcy's parents to correct this bad habit?

Earlier studies of modeled aggression suggest that

Very few people have actually come in contact with a shark, but many would show fear at the sight of a large fin swimming through the ocean waves because they have seen movies or news reports in which people have been attacked by sharks.This illustrates

Reinforcement typically exerts its effect through

The fact that rats running a maze will go directly to a food goal box instead of a previously learned longer route indicates that rats

In the introduction to Chapter 6, Larry's story about how he developed a fear of rats was told.It seems that Larry learned to fear rats when as a child he heard his mother tearfully describe how, as a little girl, she was terrified by a rat scampering out of a wood pile.Thus, Larry's fear of rats developed through a form of associative learning called

A problem with the use of punishment is that

You condition a person to blink each time you play a particular mid-level note on a piano by delivering a puff of air to the person's eye.If you then play a very high note or a very low note on the piano and do not deliver the puff of air, the person's blinking will

In a self-management program, self-recording

Learners actively "operate on" the environment with the reinforcer occurring after the response during

One learns to differentiate between antecedent stimuli that signal reward and nonreward through

As new stimuli become less like the original conditioned stimulus, an animal's responding tends to increase.

In a classic experiment, Little Albert, a very young boy, was conditioned to be afraid of a white rat.He also became fearful of white furry rabbits and bearded men.This is an example of

Brides-to-be who plan their weddings down to the last detail are exhibiting the human capacity to be

Tyler's a 12-year-old child who is frequently punished by his father, often lies about his whereabouts, and stays at a friend's house rather than going home.Tyler is demonstrating avoidance learning.

When you are first learning golf, you may hit three or four very good shots in an entire round with these great shots being somewhat random and unpredictable.You are being reinforced on what kind of partial reinforcement schedule?

Mitzi's cat has learned to meow every time it hears the can opener because Mitzi opened the cat food using an electric can opener.The cat food now comes in pull-top cans, so the cat never receives food after hearing the can opener.Mitzi's cat stops meowing to the can opener, illustrating that which of the following has taken place?

A young boy has been told by his father not to go near the street.The boy looks at his father and then runs toward the busy street.His father catches the young boy before he makes it to the street and spanks him for this misbehavior.The young boy stops going near the street due to the consequence known as

Which of the following teaches students in a format that presents information in small amounts, gives immediate practice, and provides continuous feedback to learners?