Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

Every time you give advice to a friend she suddenly turns cold and distant.Lately, you have stopped offering her advice because your advice was rejected, which is a form of negative punishment.

For optimal conditioning, the minimum delay between the CS and US should be

Learning to recognize different automobile brands, animals, types of music, and even the answers on psychology tests all depend, in part, on

If a parent follows misbehavior with an unpleasant consequence, such as scolding or spanking, the parent is using

When using behavioral self-management, one primarily utilizes the principles of classical conditioning.

Your hand draws back from pain, bright light causes the pupil of your eye to narrow, and a puff of air directed at your eye will make you blink.All of these are examples of

Regarding televised aggression, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Regarding pain, frustration, and punishment, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Human superstitious behaviors can be partially explained by

Philip is in the third grade, and he is reinforced by his mother with a quarter for every "A" he makes on a test, quiz, homework, or class work assignment he brings home.This reinforcement of Phillip's grades illustrates which of the following?

Which of the following instances would be the most effective use of mild punishment in a behavioral contract?

In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, the conditioned stimulus was the

In which type of associative learning are the antecedents the most important aspect for the learning to take place?

The use of harsh or excessive punishment with children has been shown to lead to

Which of the following is an effective recommendation for the use of punishment?

Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table, your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps whenever you were eating dinner at the kitchen table.Lately, your dog has also begun to jump up and beg for scraps whenever you sit at any table or desk in the house.Your dog is exhibiting

Latent learning involves learning without any obvious

If you smoke cigarettes, psychologists would urge you to quit so your children won't learn to smoke by

In which of the following does the nature of learning involve a neutral stimulus becoming a conditioned stimulus (CS)through its association with an unconditioned stimulus (US)?

Fatima has developed a habit of taking longer and longer "breaks" to watch TV when she should be studying.Obviously, TV watching is reinforcing her break taking.To improve her study habits, Fatima could delay reinforcement by studying at the library or some other location a good distance from her TV.In this way, she will remove the reinforcement for "taking breaks." This strategy for breaking bad habits is known as