Exam 12: The Limits of Learning

Armadillos curl up into a ball when attacked.Reginald teaches an armadillo to curl up into a ball when a buzzer sounds.Reginald is making use of the phenomenon known as .

Learning does not always mean progress.

Efforts to teach chimpanzees to talk probably failed because .

Joseph Wolpe has raised doubts about the idea that people are prepared to acquire certain phobias.

The tendency to revert to a fixed (or modal) action pattern is called instinctive drift.

Frances puts a hungry rat into an experimental chamber.Whenever the rat presses a lever, food falls into a tray.In about 30 minutes, the rat is pressing the lever steadily.Frances returns the rat to the training cage for one hour a day every day until the rat produces young.Frances then trains one of this rat's offspring in the same manner as its mother and repeats this procedure for generation after generation.You predict that when the twelfth generation rat is put into the training cage, it will press the lever steadily in about .

Skinner's efforts to teach pigeons to play ping pong demonstrate that the inability to learn a skill may sometimes be overcome by .

An animal that can learn to perform one trick is sure to learn another trick of similar complexity.

Harry and Martha Frank found that on barrier problems dogs did not perform as well as .

While walking in the woods, Larry happens to stumble across a nest of turkey eggs just as they are hatching.Larry watches the chicks as they emerge from their eggs and begin walking about.As he leaves the nest area, Larry finds the young birds are determined to go with him.Larry's new friends are victims of .

How might preparedness to learn be nonadaptive?

In their study of conditioning, Garcia and Koelling paired water with radiation.They found that the rats later avoided .

Robert Tryon demonstrated that heredity plays a role in maze learning in rats.

Louise goes to an outdoor rock concert at which she tries pizza for the first time, and listens to a new rock group.During the course of the concert she becomes nauseated.You predict that she will become nauseated the next time she .

John has difficulty training a raccoon to pick up coins and put them in a bank.It is most likely that .

Keller and Marion Breland are known for their article, .

Robert Tryon's work demonstrates the role of heredity in .

The person whose name is associated with the inheritance of acquired characteristics is .

Substances that damage the nervous system are called .

was one of the first to study imprinting.