Exam 5: What Ever Happened to Behavior Anyway

Your high school friend is now your college roommate. But whereas his bedroom in his childhood home was very neat, he has now become sloppy about hanging up clothes and straightening the room. What subtle trick might you use to remind your roommate of his old habits and encourage him to keep the room neat?

Analyze the renewal effect as an example of occasion setting.

Although you initially had the tendency to call your current partner, Chris, by the name of your ex-partner, Pat, that annoying tendency was mostly extinguished, to the relief of both of you. However, at a party you unexpectedly see Pat again. What is likely to happen?

Conditioned inhibition has been shown to be

An occasion setter can be thought of as a cue that

Typically, the failure to recall a memory is due to

Researchers have found that occasion setting is most likely to function

Predatory imminence refers to

Which outcome does not challenge the stimulus substitution model of classical conditioning?

If a student who has completed test anxiety therapy is given a pop quiz without warning, she may experience test anxiety at the next test, even if it is expected, due to

Which of the following is least likely to be the cause of forgetting?

In the first training phase of a study, a rat is trained to expect food whenever a light flashes. In a second training phase, the rat receives food whenever the left key light is illuminated but no food when the right key light is illuminated. The rat has some difficulty learning the association in the second training phase, likely because of

Memories are thought to require protein synthesis in the brain, a process referred to as

In the 1980s a band called Cinderella had a popular song with the verse "Don't know what you got 'til it's gone," reflecting the sentiment that over time we do not recognize that something makes us feel good, until it is gone. Based on what you know about conditioning, what is likely the basis for that feeling?

In positive and negative occasion setting, the occasion setter _______ or _______, respectively, the target's _______ association with the US.

Research on memory and learning has found that

Refer to the scenario below to answer the questions that follow. In an extended experiment, rats receive five kinds of trials within four-hour-long sessions of daily training over a period of five months. A tone is followed by food only when it is preceded by a small light on the left side of the wall (L_L); no food is given when the tone is presented by itself (L_L→T+, T‒). A small light on the right side of the wall (R_L) is followed by food when it was preceded by a clicker; no food is given when the tone is presented by itself (C→R_L+, R_L‒). Finally, a white noise (N) is followed by food 40% of the time. -If L_L is an occasion setter, the rats will respond