Exam 7: Learning

According to this principle of operant conditioning, strong reinforcers can be used to reinforce weak reinforcers.

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.

Pavlov found that if he allowed his animals to rest for several hours following the extinction of a behaviour, the conditioned response would spontaneously appear again upon re-presentation of the conditioned stimulus.

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?

In classical conditioning, the organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with another stimulus if

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

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

If a behaviour, like playing a slot machine, is continuously reinforced, the behaviour is initially strong but

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

A clear answer to the debate over the connection between media violence and aggression has been difficult to obtain because

For behaviours reinforced on a __________schedule, there is an increase in the behaviour (bar presses) just before the time that reinforcement (food pellet) is scheduled to occur once again.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three general statements about learning emphasized in the text?

__________takes place when an instinctive pattern of behaviour interferes with the operant conditioning of a behaviour

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

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

One problem in generalizing about real-world violence from laboratory studies is that

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

When psychologists refer to learning as the acquisition of knowledge of a new fact, they are talking about this type of knowledge.

In an attempt to get his class to quiet down more quickly, Dr. Johnson continuously sounds a very loud bullhorn until the class stops talking. This is an example o

As a result of his studies with cats in "puzzle boxes," Thorndike proposed the "law of effect," which states that