Exam 5: Learning

In an attempt to answer the question, ìWhy are reinforcers reinforcing?î, the authors of your textbook state that learning theorists attempt to formulate:

Regarding conditioning, prepared learning refers to:

In place of the law of contiguity, Rescorla and Wagner (1972) proposed the law of:

My dog Anka often barks when the doorbell rings. Anka also has an unusual tendency to watch television (she prefers football to baseball, and hates Westerns). When the doorbell rings on a television show, she looks alertly but does not bark. This is an example of

The process by which a behavior is made more likely because of the presentation of a stimulus is known as

Every time a student completes an optional assignment, I add 2 points to the student's final course grade. Students are completing many optional assignments. According to Skinner, the extra points are an example of:

Who is considered to be the founder of operant conditioning?

I get paid the last day of the month. What type of schedule of reinforcement is this?

Skinner proposed the term_____, which refers to behaviors that are emitted and spontaneously produced.

According to the textbook, all of the following are true of pessimists except:

If the CS and UCS are presented at the same time, then it is called _____ conditioning.

Theories of learning generally share the assumption that:

Identify, describe, and give examples of Skinner's two types of reinforcement and two types of punishment.

If you remove an aversive situation when the organism makes the desired response, you are using:

Which of the following is associated with pleasurable emotional states and positive reinforcement?

The migrating of salmon to their ancestral breeding grounds is __________; the traveling that college students do during Spring Break is __________

Aristotle's principle of similarity is similar to:

Assuming that smoking reduces stress, what is likely to occur if paradoxical conditioning is the case?

I tease my 7-year old niece and continue doing so until she says that I am the greatest uncle of all time. This is an example of:

One of the things that drives me nuts is that way too many people say that punishment and negative reinforcement are one and the same. Are they the same? Base your answer on a definition of terms.