Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning.

You come home from work and find that your dog has dug up the tree you just planted.To reduce this digging, you would be best advised to punish the dog

In operant conditioning, any event that reliably increases the probability or frequency of the response it follows is called a(n)

Little Cory was disruptive during the family game time, so he was sent to his room.Being sent to "time out" is an example of

For punishment to be effective with children,

There is an old story about a young boy who was left to guard the village sheep.He was instructed to cry "wolf" if he thought the sheep were in danger.Even though there was no danger, the boy enjoyed crying "wolf" over and over, just to see the villagers come running.Then, when a wolf did appear, the disbelieving villagers ignored the boy's cry.The failure of the villagers to respond illustrates the operant conditioning concept called

Young children may temporarily call all men daddy, much to the embarrassment of their parents, which illustrates operant stimulus __________.

Children have been shown to imitate the violence portrayed in

Many skills, such as playing a musical instrument, cake decorating, or learning to bat a baseball, are learned by what Albert Bandura called

Which of the following is the appropriate sequence for classically conditioning an eyeblink response to an auditory stimulus?

While reinforcement typically exerts its influence through associative learning, feedback is a key component of

In Pavlov's experiment, the dog's salivation to the food is referred to as the __________ response.

The basic tools a person has available to control simple learning include

Placing a child in time-out removes the child from playtime, television, and other positive situations.Therefore, time-out would be considered

During the training of the "sniffer" dogs who locate drugs, the dogs are reinforced only for approaching containers baited with drugs.This training illustrates the use of

On Fridays, you know that you can dress casually for work, but on Wednesdays when the corporate executive usually drops by, you know you should dress in your best suit.This illustrates

At the beginning of Chapter 6, Larry's story about how he learned to fear rats was presented.Although Larry tried to use abstract "book learning" to conquer his fear of rats, he eventually went to a therapist who used a method based on which of the following types of learning to help Larry overcome his irrational fear of rats?

Feedback is the key component of

The learned ability to respond differently to various stimuli is known as

Concerning the behavioral effects of various consequences, a response that is not followed by a reward will occur less frequently.This defines

After scrub jays were allowed to store worms and nuts in different locations, the scrub jays released after four hours flew to the worms but did not fly to the worms if they are released five days later.This illustrates that the scrub jays