Exam 7: Learning and Behaviour

What is learned in classical conditioning?

One of the results from the Garcia and Koelling study (1966) was the finding that stimuli that arise internally (such as detecting a stimulus's flavour) are more readily associated with an internal event (such as illness) than with an external event (such as electric shock applied to the skin).

In the three-term contingency, generalization would occur for which component?

Pavlov's first response to his dogs' mysterious salivary response to his laboratory assistant was to

Hebb's suggestions about the cellular basis for learning, known as "Hebbian learning,"were that classical conditioning

The law of effect is to behavioural responses as natural selection is to species.

A response tendency conditioned to a signal that predicts the absence of the UCS is termed a(n)

Research in which non-human animal subjects are given unlimited access to drugs is useful in discovering the __________ of newly developed drugs.

A child with a parent who has a phobia of heights may also develop a similar phobia by

After a rest period following extinction, a CR will often reappear. This phenomenon is called

Which two factors influence the acquisition of a CR?

Can a classically conditioned response be entirely eliminated?

Classical conditioning will only occur when the

Any neutral stimulus paired with a stimulus such as food that elicits a response is called a(n) __________ stimulus.

The salivation shown by Pavlov's dogs in response to the bell is a typical example of a(n)

Among the phenomena discovered and first studied by Pavlov are

An example of the acquisition of a behaviour through imitation that does not involve external reinforcement is

In shaping, behaviour that increasingly resembles the target behaviour is reinforced.

The withholding of a reinforcing event causes the relevant behaviour to

Reinforcement and punishment exert their strongest effects when