Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

A woman reported feeling "weak in the knees" whenever she smelled cigarette smoke and Beemans gum because of the association of these smells with her first love.In this example, the combined smell of cigarettes and Beemans gum would be

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

Classical conditioning could account for how a child learns to

The reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction and a period of rest is called

If the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented alone, spontaneous recovery occurs.

You are watching a rat pressing a lever in a Skinner box to obtain food pellets.The rat is pressing the lever at a very high rate, and does not stop, even when a food pellet is delivered.In this example, the reinforcement schedule that is in place is MOST likely

Given the research findings in this chapter, explain how you would respond to your own children when they did things you did that you did not want them to do.When would you use positive reinforcement? When would you use punishment to teach them things? When would you use negative reinforcement? What kinds of reinforcement schedules would you use? (Be sure that you clearly differentiate between reinforcement and punishment, negative and positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement and punishment)

Traffic lights serve as discriminative stimuli for the operant behaviour of driving.

A worker gets paid every Friday for completing his 40-hour work week.He is being paid on a ____ schedule.

Primary reinforcers are effective because

Josiah checks his electronic mail several times throughout the day.Some days there is mail each time he checks; sometimes several days go by with no new messages arriving.In this example, Josiah's behaviour of checking his electronic mail is being reinforced on

The newest winning numbers in the state lottery are announced on the local television station every Saturday night, at the end of the news hour.People who are watching for the lottery numbers will have their "watching" reinforced on

Stimulus generalisation occurs when

Which of the following is an example of a primary reinforcer?

If a dog salivates to a blue light and not to a yellow light, the dog is showing evidence of

Learning to tie one's shoes is most likely acquired via the process of

Negative reinforcement involves

____________________ conditioning is a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences.

The major difference between a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus is

Your teenaged daughter has not cleaned her room in a month.You go in and begin yelling at her to clean her room.She begins to clean up, and you stop yelling.Your daughter's cleaning behaviour can be viewed as responding to