Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

What does the occurrence of spontaneous recovery in classical conditioning show?

If you reinforce successively closer approximations of a behaviour until the desired behaviour is displayed, you are using the operant conditioning procedure called ____________________.

Which type of reinforcer depends upon learning?

Describe how extinction works differently in classical conditioning than it does in operant conditioning.

Agricultural workers are paid according to the number of bushels of apples they pick. Which schedule of reinforcement does this illustrate?

Quentin wears his lucky socks every time he plays hockey because they were once paired with scoring goals. Which of the following does Quentin's behaviour illustrate?

At a party, a friend of yours keeps popping balloons with a burning cigarette. By the time he is about to pop the fifth balloon, you notice your muscles tense and you squint each time the cigarette nears the balloon. Which of the following applies to this example?

The infant Albert developed a fear of white rats after they were associated with a loud noise. He eventually became afraid of anything that was white and fluffy. What process does this demonstrate?

Tara is a magazine fashion model, so cameras and flashbulbs are part of her life. She responds to the click of a camera with a slight contraction of her pupils, even when a flash bulb is not being used. What do we call this contraction of her pupils?

What does the informational view of learning emphasize?

Three-year-old Imani likes to imitate whatever her older sisters are doing. Which concept is Imani's behaviour illustrating?

If you touch a hot stove, you will reflexively yank your hand away. According to Pavlov, what would yanking your hand away from the stove be termed?

A response that is reflexive and automatically elicited by an unconditioned stimulus is called a(n) __________ response.

Which of the following have researchers taught chimpanzees to exchange for food?

After Pavlov had conditioned his dogs to salivate to the tone, he repeatedly presented the tone without presenting the food. What was the result?

Describe the basic process of classical conditioning, using an example. Be sure to identify the unconditioned stimulus (US), the unconditioned response (UR), the conditioned stimulus (CS), and the conditioned response (CR).

Which of the following is one of the basic tools a parent has to control simple learning in a child?

According to the informational view of learning, why is the response to the unconditioned stimulus (US) in classical conditioning eventually made to the conditioned stimulus (CS)?

Which researcher is associated with the study of classical conditioning?

What is desensitization therapy?