Exam 8: Learning

What will it probably happen to the instrumental conditioning if the animal presses a lever that no longer results in the administration of a reinforcement?

"Of several responses made to the same situation, those which are accompanied or closely followed by satisfaction to the animal will, other things being equal, be more firmly connected with the situation." (Thorndike, 1911, p. 244)."This is the law of ________.

The amplitude of a neural population's spike to a low-intensity pulse can be increased through experience, a phenomenon called:

Reflexes can be flexible, allowing organisms to adapt their responses to the environment when the predictive relationships between events change.

Complete this modus tollens: if p then q, not q, therefore:

Conditioning chambers are exclusively used to study fear conditioning in rats.

Learning happens even when we are asleep.

Explain why smoking behaviour is insensitive to reinforcer devaluation, according to the instrumental conditioning perspective.

What category of neurons respond for both action observation and action execution?

Where was long-term potentiation first observed?

Mary quickly drops the very hot mug as soon as she touched it, avoiding a serious burn. This is an example of:

Beckers and colleagues (2006), proposed that the blocking effect in humans is caused by __________ rather than __________.

What reflex makes babies turn their heads towards an object that gently stimulates their cheeks?

New evidence links LTP with learning.

The opposite of LTP is:

Describe the difference between punishment and reinforcement.

Provide a suitable definition of learning.

Four-year old Dylan receives a "time-out" at preschool for deliberately knocking down another child in order to take his tricycle. Because of his misdeed Dylan's teacher removed him from the playground and told him to sit quietly in a chair in the corner of the classroom for the next five minutes. "Time-out" is considered an example of _________.

In associative LTP, the neuron that previously doesn't elicit a postsynaptic firing will subsequently cause the firing if it's weakly stimulated __________ the other neuron.

LTD stands for: