Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

Operant shaping is often used in training various animals to perform tricks with hand signals being used to indicate which trick that the animal is to perform and food treats then being used as reinforcers.Thus, the trainer's hand signals are serving as

Little Armondo is afraid of dogs.He also shows a fear of other furry animals, such as cats and rabbits.Armondo is exhibiting stimulus __________.

Advertisers often try to use higher-order conditioning by pairing images that evoke good feelings with pictures of their products.

Regarding a comparison of classical and operant conditioning, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Your dog jumps up on you when you get home.You eliminate this behavior by withholding your attention and ignoring the dog when it jumps on you.This is called

A team coach who scolds and benches a player for poor performance is using

A corporate pay policy comparable to a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement would

The programmed instruction that is called drill-and-practice is also known as

Food, water, pain reduction, sex, and brain stimulation are all considered to be primary reinforcers.

In a classic study of angry adolescent boys who were severely punished at home, it was found that

Forming a connection between the stimulus of a dog growling at you and the response of fear would be a type of __________learning.

By pairing their products with pleasant images and music on television, advertisers often try to vicariously create positive

It has been found that in humans, latent learning often occurs because of

In an experiment, the discovery learning group of students was encouraged to see that a "piece" of parallelogram could be "moved" to create a rectangle, while the rote learning group memorized the height times base formula.The results of the experiment demonstrated that

A linked series of actions that lead to reinforcement is the definition of which of the following concepts?

Regarding operant extinction and spontaneous recovery, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Once a student learns to solve one type of math equation, she can utilize this same formula with similar problems.This student is demonstrating

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, the sound of the flushing toilet would be the

B.F.Skinner is known for studying

The blinking of your eye to a puff of air would be a good example of a(n)