Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

Richard tells his new joke to three different people, and each one of them laughs. Because telling the joke led to laughter, which Richard enjoys, Richard will be more likely to tell this joke to other people. This situation illustrates

You live in an apartment and your neighbor's stereo is blasting so loudly that your ears hurt. If you pound on the wall and the volume suddenly drops, you are more likely to pound on the wall again if the stereo is loud because

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

In Bandura's classic Bo-Bo doll experiment, most of the children imitated all of the models, whether live, filmed, or cartoon.

Which of the following involves using a well-learned conditioned stimulus (CS) as an unconditioned stimulus (US)?

During training, a conditioned response must be established and strengthened during the period known as

Which of the following types of learning extends beyond basic conditioning into the realms of memory, thinking, problem solving, and language?

Which of the following is the weakening of a conditioned response through the removal of the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus?

Which of the following reinforcers are used to provide immediate incentives for learning and to avoid the problem of satiation?

Little Armando is afraid of dogs. He also shows a fear of other furry animals, such as cats and rabbits. Armando is exhibiting stimulus __________.

Many studies of operant conditioning in animals make use of an operant conditioning chamber, which was invented by __________.

We pick up phones that are ringing, but rarely answer phones that are silent, which illustrates the concept of stimulus control.

Mild punishment only temporarily suppresses a response.

A type of learning was discovered when the dogs in a lab learned to salivate to a bell. Which of the following is NOT one of the names by which this type of learning is known?

Greg has not been making any progress toward his weight loss for the past six months. So, he and his wife draw up a formal agreement in which he states that he will meet weekly weight loss goals. The agreement outlines the rewards for meeting these goals and the consequences he will incur if he does not meet his goals. Greg and his wife are utilizing which of the following to help Greg lose weight?

You come home from work and find that your dog has dug up the tree you just planted. To reduce this digging, you would be best advised to punish the dog

Jamal works for a department store that pays him $50 for every three bicycles he assembles; thus, Jamal is on a variable interval schedule of reinforcement.

Annie is being noisy and disrespectful, and her mother gives her a "swat" on her rear end. Annie immediately gets quiet. The next time Annie is being noisy and disrespectful, her mother is most likely to use punishment again. According to research, which of the following is a FALSE statement regarding the use of punishment?

Training in which the conditioned response is established and strengthened is referred to as __________.

Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at the kitchen table, your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps first whenever you were sitting at the kitchen table and later whenever you were sitting at any table or desk in the house. If you do not feed your dog while sitting at any other table besides the kitchen table, the jumping and begging response that originally generalized to all the tables and desks will extinguish because of