Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

When children engage in negative attention-seeking, they are demonstrating the power of

Although Sydney was not feeling very well, she went to her favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch.After eating the food, she became very sick.Upon going to the doctor, she found out that it was a stomach virus that had made her sick, not the food.However, the next time she went to the Chinese restaurant and smelled the food, she immediately felt nauseous.In this story, the unconditioned response (UR)was

While shopping with you, your niece begs for a toy and then has a temper tantrum in the store.If you buy her a toy, you are

Regarding the basic tools a person has available to control simple learning, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Learning that involves mechanical repetition and memorization is known as __________ learning.

Facts or principles gained by insight that often lead to a better understanding of new or unusual problems describes __________ learning.

Regarding antecedents, consequences, and associative learning, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?

A child who acquires a fear of a light socket because she saw someone else get shocked when he touched it, is exhibiting

Mollie loved to eat her grandmother's pecan pie.However, as her grandmother got older, she had difficulty picking out all the pecan shells, so some of the pieces got cooked into the pie.When Mollie would bite into a piece of pecan shell in the pie, she would grab her jaw in pain.After several visits eating "pecan-shell" pie, Mollie would grab her jaw before she even put a bite of pie in her mouth.The pain (of biting a pecan shell)is the

In studies that looked at the association between violent video games and aggressiveness, the researchers found that

A student can expect the teacher to answer his questions more completely if he comes to her office during her office hours than asking her the questions in the cafeteria.Learning to expect that a particular response will have a certain effect at one time and not another illustrates

Peter is 12 years old and is about to be punished by his parents.According to the guidelines for punishment in the textbook, the parents should use

In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, salivation to the food was the

Superstitious behaviors are observed in people, not in other animals.

Select a behavior that you would like to increase or decrease; and describe how you would set up a behavioral self-management program for this behavior.

After watching a great deal of televised violence, people often become less likely to react negatively to the violence, that is, they become __________ to it.

In examining expectations that develop during operant conditioning from the informational perspective, which of the following statements is most accurate?

Regarding observational learning studies, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Conditioning studies have repeatedly shown that animals are sensitive to the passage of time.

Even though it will be four years before you graduate, you study and work hard because you know that having the degree will help you obtain a good job.Looking toward this degree helps maintain your hard work through a series of courses even through the reinforcement is delayed for several years.This illustrates