Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

Tony is deathly afraid of heights. His therapist uses a virtual reality program that allows Tony to feel like he is experiencing gradually increasing levels of height. This therapy technique is a type of

You are being paid for each 100 square feet of drywall you install. You are being paid on the type of partial reinforcement schedule known as __________.

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

A therapy widely used to extinguish fears and phobias is called

Juan likes to play video games, but he also needs to increase his exercise time. So, he decides to play a video game only after he has exercised for 30 minutes. Using video game playing as a reward for exercising illustrates the use of

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

When using the three tools to control behavior, it is usually best to begin

Professional football players watch hours of videos of their game performance analyzed by their coaches. This is an example of the use of which of the following to improve performance?

Mahmoud's parents use frequent and severe physical punishment for his misbehaviors at home. Which of the following is most likely to be true?

If you drive through a red traffic light, you may get a ticket. If the light is green, you will not get a ticket. In operant conditioning terms, the red and green lights serve as

A conditioned stimulus comes to evoke a response because it has been repeatedly paired with a(n)

Memory, thinking, problem-solving, and the use of concepts, language, and feedback are all involved in

Your midterm exam score is an example of

If you are making use of information-rich higher mental processes, such as organizing various research articles in writing your term paper, you are engaged in a complex form of

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

After pairing the conditioned stimulus (CS)and unconditioned stimulus (US)in a series of conditioning trials, the organism learns to respond to the CS alone. This learned behavior is then termed the

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

When Kasey receives a traffic citation for speeding, she is being directly punished by the officer by being reprimanded as well as being delayed in getting to work on time. Kasey has received

Parents report dramatic improvements in their children's behavior (that is, a decrease in negative attention seeking)when they

While Gabe was growing up, his father would get angry and yell and throw objects at the wall. As an adult now, Gabe also yells and throws objects when he gets angry. Gabe learned these behaviors through