Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house.To extinguish this response, you would

Skills, such as dancing, tying your shoe, or playing a guitar, are most easily learned through modeling, or ___________ learning.

Jimmy helps his father put away the dishes after dinner.If Jimmy's father wants to increase the probability of this behavior, he will be most successful by praising Jimmy

When you are about to get a shot with a hypodermic needle, your muscles tighten and there is a catch in your breathing because you have learned to expect that getting poked with a needle will be painful.This explanation of your behavior is consistent with

In which type of learning is an antecedent stimulus that does not produce a response linked with a stimulus that does produce the response?

Compared with learning by rote, which of the following produces learning that is more lasting and flexible?

As a child, you associated pain with a dentist's office.In later visits, your heart began to pound and your palms began to sweat before the dentist began any procedure.You are exhibiting a

The students have learned to tell when Dr.Morgan is in a "good" mood or not by how she enters the room.If she speaks as she enters the room, it will be a "good" day, but if she puts her books down before she speaks, "watch out." Their ability to anticipate her mood for the day and act accordingly illustrates

The proper order of events required for classical conditioning to occur is CS---US---UR.

Regarding associative learning, which of the following discovered classical conditioning?

In behavioral self-management, the activity you want to change is called the

Tamara is deathly afraid of coming in contact with germs.So, her therapist gradually exposes Tamara to "unclean" things, such as touching dirt or taking a bite of an unwashed piece of fruit, while in a calm, relaxed, and supportive environment.This technique is known as

When it rains, you have learned to run for cover.Your running to get out of the rain is anexample of __________learning.

If you watch television every night and want to study more, make it a rule not to turn on the set until you have studied for an hour.Then, lengthen the requirement each week.Using the television watching as a reinforcement for studying is an example of

A teacher does not respond to the students who call out a question without raising their hands.By withholding her attention from these students who do not raise their hands, she is eliminating this behavior through operant extinction.

In Bandura's classic Bo-Bo doll experiment, most of the children imitated

Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior due to __________.

Much human learning, such as using a computer or playing a musical instrument, occurs in the absence of obvious reinforcers, such as food or water, because of the adaptive value of

Most children quickly learn to tell the difference between the voice tones of adults that are associated with punishment from those associated with praise or affection.This learned ability is called

Superstitious behaviors are