Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

The probability of repeating a response is increased by which of the following consequences?

The idea that a high frequency response can be used to reinforce a low frequency response was proposed by

Intracranial self-stimulation is a very powerful reinforcer because it activates the same pleasure pathways in the brain that are activated by natural __________ reinforcers.

Getting paid every two weeks at your job comes closest to which schedule of reinforcement?

The effects of modeling and imitation underlie

Through modeling of their parents, children often learn which of the following?

A few weeks after giving up on buying state lottery tickets, many people are tempted to try again, thus, illustrating the concept of

You have a mental picture of how your city is organized so that you can easily take an alternate route if there is a traffic jam. Psychologists call this a(n)

The weakening or disappearance of a nonreinforced operant response is called operant __________.

Using punishment can be "habit forming" because putting a stop to someone else's irritating behavior can

What is meant by the statement, "Classical conditioning is a reversible process"?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using computer-assisted instruction (CAI)?

The basic principle of which type of learning states that acts that are followed by a positive consequence tend to be repeated?

In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, the conditioned stimulus was the

You are training a rat to press a bar. Instead of waiting for the rat's first accidental bar press, you reinforce the rat with a food pellet for facing the bar and then turning toward the bar. Next, you reinforce the rat every time he takes a step toward the bar, until he touches the bar. Lastly, you reinforce the rat for pressing the bar. You are

The learned expectancy in operant conditioning is that the

In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, the conditioned response was the

The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to those that preceded operant reinforcement is called

Which of the following is an example of response cost?

Which of the following is an example of latent learning?