Exam 6: Learning

The findings of the Little Albert experiment helped make advancements in the treatment of what psychological disorder?

Approximately how many times in the Little Albert experiment was the rat paired with the loud noise to effectively evoke a conditioned emotional response?

Instinctive drift suggests that a species will favor natural instinctive behaviors to those being reinforced and, as a result, some behaviors cannot be ________.

To prevent your children from swimming in the pool when you are not home, you inform them that they will lose television time for a week if they are caught in the pool when no adults are home. If you actually employ this punishment, you are using ________.

A rat presses on a lever, and the electric shock to his feet is terminated. The rat continues to press on the lever. This is an example of ________.

Stimulus generalization can be accurately thought of as being the opposite of ________.

Psychologists define ________ as any relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes caused by experience.

Which of the following is a criticism of Watson and Rayner's Little Albert study?

A combat veteran experiences an intense emotional reaction to a clap of thunder. His emotional response is an example of a ________.

Define observational learning, including a description of the four processes that are essential for it to work, and note an example of observational learning from your own life.

Sometimes (but not always) Ellen receives a bonus after doing her job well. However, this keeps her maintaining maximum performance on the job. What type of schedule does this illustrate?

Which of the following describes an exaggerated and irrational fear of a specific object or situation?

Which type of stimuli and responses, such as salivating at the sight of food, are unlearned?

The best way to get your son to take out the trash without being told would be to reward your son on a ________ schedule of reinforcement at first, then change to a ________ schedule.

Reina has been diagnosed with ________. Her physician explains to Reina's parents that part of the condition, a decreased ability to relate to others and to experience empathy, may come from a malfunctioning of mirror neurons.

Deficiencies in mirror neurons may explain some of the issues associated with ________.