Exam 7: Learning

This type of learning refers to the ways in which an organism might learn by observing the experiences of others, rather than through his or her own experience.

All of the following were results of the original aggression-modeling experiments performed by Bandura and his colleagues, EXCEPT:

In order for something to be a secondary reinforcer it must be

Suppose you wished to train your dog to play basketball. If you use a shaping procedure, you would start by demonstrating the full behavior to the dog so that it could shape its behavior to yours.

As a part of the debriefing for the fear conditioning of Little Albert, Watson and Rayner planned to recondition Albert so that he would not generalize his fear of rats to other objects later in life.

Researchers hypothesize that mirror neurons aid learning by allowing the brain to create

Addicts who recover in the context of a drug treatment facility may experience a resurgence of craving for their drug of choice once they leave the facility and come into contact with people, places, or things associated with the drug. In classical conditioning, this is called

Which of the following statements is consistent with B. F. Skinner’s brand of behaviorism known as radical behaviorism?

This concept, violated by findings of cross -species conditioning experiments, states that any neutral stimulus can be associated just as easily with one unconditioned stimulus as with any other.

Jennifer's parents are hoping that she continues to earn good grades throughout her college career, so they have promised a small deposit into her savings account for each grade above a B that she receives. This is an example of

According to the functionalist perspective, when an organism learns a conditioned response to natural stimuli compared to laboratory stimuli, the conditioning

All of the following statements about Watson and Rayner's (1920) "Little Albert" experiment are true, EXCEPT:

Jason generally works hard at the law firm and is on a salary there. The firm pays Jason every 2 weeks to ensure that Jason's work is relatively equally distributed across days in the office. This is an example of which reinforcement schedule?

When learning involves relating a response to more than one event or stimulus, it is called

When Christopher Ferguson and his colleagues conducted correlational studies of exposure to violent video games and real-life violence as well as aggression, they found all of the following variables to be correlated with a history of violent criminal offenses, EXCEPT:

In the original version of Bandura's experiment, preschoolers were left in the company of an adult model who would either punch and kick an inflatable clown doll ("Bobo")-the kind with a rounded, weighted base that springs back up when knocked down-or, in the control conditions, the adult would.

Taking advantage of the law of effect, Jessica's mother announced: "You can watch TV, but only after you've cleaned your room!" Suddenly, the low-probability behavior becomes a high-probability behavior.

As an example of this learning mechanism, your sensitivity to pain generally increases the longer the pain continues, both in the affected area of your body and in surrounding areas.

Unlike radical behaviorism, this brand of behaviorism acknowledges the possibility of mental representations in learning.

Results from Robert Rescorla's research in which he varied the predictive power of a conditioned stimulus suggested that