Exam 2: Habituation and Other Forms of Simple Stimulus Learning

"Habituation can occur as a result of visual receptors losing their sensitivity to detect changes in one's visual environment." This idea is consistent with which explanation of habituation?

Research has shown that exposure therapy will only work if the patient is exposed to their feared stimulus in a controlled, non-threatening manner.

Which of the following is best illustrating of priming?

From a cognitive perspective, sensitization occurs when:

A teacher is helping a young student understand what the color 'green' looks like. Research on perceptual learning suggests that the best way of accomplishing this would be to:

Which of the following questions would most likely elicit an unconscious, mere-exposure based reaction?

After habituating his animals to a visual stimulus, Dr. Stillman presents a novel tone to his subjects. Following the presentation of the tone, the animals are again shown the initial visual stimulus, but they no longer habituate to this event. What has occurred?

A decrease in responding to a stimulus is referred to as:

Neurons that play a major role in the general level of arousal of the nervous system have been labeled:

James has been studying habituation in lab rats for the past six months. As part of his design, each week of habituation training is followed by a week where no training occurs. Over time, James has been finding that his rats habituate to the experimental stimuli faster than the previous week of habituation training. This result is evidence of which parametric feature of habituation?

Orienting responses:

Aplysia have been used to study the physiological properties of learning because:

Effector fatigue occurs when:

Neurons directly involved in the reflex arc have been labeled_________, and are closely related to the process of _________.

After habituating his animals to a dark-blue circle, Dr. Stillman presents a light-blue circle to his subjects and finds that they continue to habituate to this novel item. What has occurred?

Having a fear of new stimuli is referred to as:

Upon returning home from middle school each day, Billy has a peanut butter sandwich for a snack. After 8 days of this, he finds that he no longer enjoys the sandwich, but he wants to enjoy it as he did when he first started eating this daily treat. Research on habituation shows that Billy should avoid eating peanut butter sandwiches for__________days in order to have the strongest chance of getting his enjoyment back to its initial level.

According to Sokolov's Memory-Comparator theory, a response similar to sensitization will occur if:

As a result of his past experiences with police, whenever Pat hears a police siren, he expects that he will soon be arrested. This type of a reaction arises from which model of habituation?

Williams is attempting to study habituation by varying the number of repetitions required to obtain habituation to a visual stimulus. This procedure is most directly studying which parametric feature of habituation?