Exam 7: Learning
Exam 1: Psychology As Science118 Questions
Exam 2: The Brain, the Body, and Behavior119 Questions
Exam 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior126 Questions
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Exam 7: Learning120 Questions
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Thanks to this component of classical conditioning, you automatically learn to avoid all dogs that might attack you if you have been attacked by a dog in the past.
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Because of ______________, your sensitivity to pain generally increases the longer the pain continues, both in the affected area of your body and in surrounding areas, rather than decreasing as would be the case in ______________.
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In the premotor cortex of the monkey brain there is a network of these neurons, which fire either when a monkey performs a particular action or when the monkey merely observes another monkey or a human performing that action.
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In one study of mirror neurons in primates, the neurons fired strongly when the monkeys observed the experimenter's hand moving to grasp an object, but not when
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This schedule of reinforcement, sometimes reinforcing hunting strategies in animals, and shopping strategies in humans, generally produces the lowest rate of responding because reinforcement is delivered at unpredictable time intervals.
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One problem in generalizing about real-world violence from laboratory studies is that the aggression measured in laboratory research studies is not representative of the intensity of real-world violence.
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One problem in generalizing about real-world violence from laboratory studies is that
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Parents can use the Premack principle to condition children to clean their rooms by
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In classical conditioning, the organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with another stimulus if
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As a result of his studies with cats in "puzzle boxes," Thorndike proposed the "law of effect," which states that
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All of the following are valid conclusions from the current research on aggression, violence, and the media, EXCEPT:
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Tolman suggested that during the non-reinforcement period in his experiment, the rats had been forming a cognitive map-a mental representation of the reinforcer.
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The "positive" and "negative" terms applied to reinforcement and punishment refer to
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According to the partial reinforcement effect, in most cases it is better for learning that reinforcement does not occur on a continuous basis.
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Which of the following is the best example of the principle of sensitization?
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The _______________ must follow immediately after the conditioning (neutral) stimulus begins to be presented-no more than a second or two at the very most-or the association between the stimuli will be weakened.
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Many operant conditioning programs set up in substance abuse treatment facilities, which work by reinforcing desired behaviors with prizes, chances to win prizes, or tokens that may be redeemed for various privileges, use this technique.
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All of the following statements about partial reinforcement are true, EXCEPT:
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Violence and aggression can be serious threats to a stable society. Explain how psychologists came to understand how humans learn to model the behavior of others. In your answer, make sure to describe behavioral and neuropsychological evidence. Also, provide two examples of media influence on violence and aggression.
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