Exam 5: Learning

The three kinds of conditioned responses discussed in the chapter do NOT include:

Explain classical conditioning. Make sure you include (and define) the following: UCS, UCR, CS, CR, acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery.

Although you used to love cherry candy, the taste of it now makes you slightly nauseous. You realize that you have felt that way ever since you experienced food poisoning shortly after eating a cherry candy. This is an example of

The slow down of learning that is associated with earlier or previous experiences with the neutral stimulus in the absence of the UCS is called:

According to B. F. Skinner, _____ will increase the likelihood an organism will make a response while _____ will decrease the likelihood a behavior will be exhibited.

A stimulus that signals the presence of particular contingencies of reinforcement is called a:

The experiment by Garcia and Koelling that exposed rats to three different conditioned stimuli (light, sound, and taste), demonstrated that:

In a well-known example of classical conditioning, researchers taught a baby named Little Albert to fear a furry white rat by frightening him with a loud noise each time he reached out to touch the rat. After this experience, Little Albert became afraid of white sheep and other white furry objects. Little Albert's fear of furry sheep is an example of

Children usually raise their hands to speak when they are in a classroom but not when they are on the playground. The best explanation for this is:

In Garcia's experiment with rats being exposed to radiation, what was the result of that study?

What is the major type of learning that is supposed to take place in the classroom?

The evolved tendency of some associations to be learned more readily than others is known as

Two people are driving down the road and get in a car accident. One thinks it was simply meant to be (fate) while the other blames himself or herself. These two people differ in their:

You love to play instant lottery games. Usually you do not win, but every so many cards you get a card that is a big winner. What type of schedule of reinforcement is this?

Those who suffer from positive illusions:

Stimulus generalization is a tendency to react to stimuli similar to training stimuli by giving a:

A stimulus that is innately rewarding to an organism is known as a

What effect has the Law of Prediction had on the field of classical conditioning?

The reemergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response is called:

In _____ conditioning, the CR is sometimes the opposite of the UCR.