Exam 6: Learning

Mark and Kathy take their 2-year-old son to the supermarket every Saturday. Each week, the same sequence of events unfolds: Their son screams, demanding that they buy him treats. Although they refuse to give in to his demands, he continues to scream. Finally, either Mark or Kathy gets in their son's face and yells at the top of their lungs "Shut up!" He stops screaming instantly. What operant conditioning concepts are illustrated in this story?

Based on cognitive-social learning theory, which of the following is the BEST slogan to present to a class for parents who want their children to adopt their standards of behavior?

Garcia's finding that conditioned laboratory rats to avoid sweetened water because it was paired with a shock that caused nausea several hours later shows _________

_____ were influential in early studies of cognitive learning.

Tony sees a little boy crying and he feels sad. At the biology level, what is the BEST explanation of what is happening?

Describe how the principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive-social learning are involved in the acquisition of prejudice. , Operant Conditioning, Cognitive - Social Learning

If you repeatedly fail in your attempts to control your environment, you are likely to make no further attempts to escape or even make your environment better. This is called _____.

When you add a stimulus that decreases the likelihood of a response recurring, you are engaged in _____. If you subtract a stimulus with the same result, you are engaged in _____.

A conditioned emotional response is an emotion that is _____.

When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the US (food, in this case), the CR will "die out" in a process called ______________.

An event that increases the probability that a response will be repeated is called _____.

Dan and Jenny spank Nolan when he pulls the dog's tail. They are using _____ to teach Jimmy not to pull the dog's tail.

____________neurons in the brain are fired when monkeys observe another monkey performing a similar task.

After Little Albert was classically conditioned to fear the laboratory rat, if he did not show fear to similar furry animals or objects, this would demonstrate he process of _____________.

According to your text, research has shown that exposure to media portrayals of demeaning and stereotypical roles for minorities and women _____.

In John Watson's demonstration of classical conditioning with little Albert, the unconditioned stimulus was _____.

Explain the importance of schedules of reinforcement in the effective use of reinforcement and punishment. Provide an example of a fixed-ratio, variable-ratio, fixed-interval and variable-interval partial schedule to illustrate your explanation.

John Michael is an alcoholic who cannot seem to stop drinking. He goes to a hospital and they give him a nausea-producing drug (emetic) after he gargles with alcohol. As a result of this treatment, John will probably

A(n) _____ is a learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus due to repeated pairings.

In an experiment, laboratory rats were classically conditioned to get sick after drinking sweetened water that was paired with a drug that compromises immune response. These rats continued to die after the experiment because of the conditioned response to the sweetened water alone. Which conclusion can be drawn from this research?