Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

Three-year-old Taye was classically conditioned to salivate to a bell that was paired with lemon juice. After this conditioned response was extinguished, the experimenter presented the bell the following day, and Taye responded by salivating again to the bell, at least at first. Taye's return to the learned response is known as

A phobia is best interpreted as a

Define discriminative stimuli and provide two real-life examples of its use.

During modeling, once a new response is tried, normal reinforcement or feedback determines whether it will be repeated thereafter.

If parents change to less punitive parenting, their children's levels of aggression will likely

Regarding the experiments using intracranial self-stimulation, which of the following statements is FALSE?

In classical conditioning, which of the following extends learning one or more steps beyond the original conditioned stimulus?

Because you can think about past events and even imagine events in your future, you, like all humans, are

Alex is paid $10 for every 15 bags of "nuts and bolts" that he puts together, according to instructions. Alex is on which schedule of reinforcement?

Regarding the use of punishment for training or discipline, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Regarding punishment, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following involves listing how much time you currently spend performing the specific activity or counting the number of desired or undesired responses you make each day?

Learning by imitation is so important to so many mammals that the brain dedicates special neurons to this function, which are called __________ neurons.

Facts or principles gained by insight or understanding describe

When a basketball coach uses videotaped replays to show his team both their good and poor shot selection, the coach is using

Negative reinforcement occurs when a response