Exam 6: A: Learning

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In operant conditioning,the procedure for extinction is simply to stop providing reinforcement.​

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​Repeatedly presenting the CS without the UCS leads to the extinction of the CR.

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​Extinction of a conditioned response is the same thing as forgetting.

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If one stimulus predicts a second stimulus,which occurs regardless of the individual's behavior,then this type of learning is __________ conditioning.​

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​Spontaneous recovery is a temporary return of an extinguished response after a delay.

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​In classical and operant conditioning,any stimulus can be paired equally easily with any possible outcome.

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​Today's behaviorists explain all behavior in terms of reactions to the stimuli immediately present in the environment.

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In operant conditioning,continued responding without any reinforcement results in ___________.​

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In Pavlov's experiments,the conditioned response was similar to the unconditioned response.​

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​In Pavlov's experiments,a sound preceded food,which evoked salivation.When the sound also evokes salivation,we call the salivation the _________ response.

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​Birds that learn their song don't begin to learn it until they are old enough to begin singing.

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​Pavlov paired the sound from a metronome with the presentation of food and measured the dog's salivation response.Salivation in response to the food is known as the unconditioned response.

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The process of establishing a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to it is known as ____________.​

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​Research has consistently supported Pavlov's view that conditioning depends on the growth of a new axon connection between two areas of the cortex.

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If something has become reinforcing to you because you learned that it is associated with other reinforcers,then this new,learned reinforcer is called a ________ reinforcer.​

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​According to Thorndike,responses that are followed by reinforcement become more probable.He called this the law of _________.

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​To produce extinction in classical conditioning,repeatedly present the __________ by itself.

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​Why do behaviorists argue that your thoughts do not cause your behaviors?

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​In some cases,the conditioned response is significantly different from the unconditioned response.

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In classical conditioning a researcher takes an animal through extinction and then waits a while.If the response returns without additional training,we call it _________  __________.​

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