Exam 5: Learning

Which of the following statements about insight is true?

There is a movie that innately causes me to become very enthusiastic. I watch that movie prior to a particular class. After I have watched the movie prior to that class enough times, I come to realize that I really like the class. This shows that:

While watching a movie, a friend of mine passes out when he sees another person get a needle stuck in their arm. He reacts as if the needle was stuck in his arm. This is best explained by:

My niece has terrible temper tantrums in the grocery store, so my sister is trying to think of a way to reduce the tantrums. Which of the following would be most likely to reduce the tantrums?

Learning very rarely involves an organism by itself. That is, social learning tends to be the norm rather than the exception. For that reason, define the following terms: social learning, observational learning, vicarious conditioning, and tutelage. Of those four terms, which ONE do you think offers the best chance of making the world a better place? Explain your choice.

You recently noticed that eating sour candy causes extra salivation as your body reacts to the sour taste. You love sour candy and eat it often. The other day you purchased a new bag of sour candy and as you were looking at the bag, you noticed that you were salivating. The sour candy is a:

How do vicarious conditioning and tutelage differ from each other?

An environmental consequence that results in an increase in responding is called _____ in instrumental conditioning.

A fundamental aspect of the behaviorist agenda was to:

The ability of an organism to learn a task without being reinforced is best explained by the social-cognitive theory term:

You picture in your mind the route that would take you from where you are to your favorite class. According to cognitive-social theory, you are making use of:

In classical conditioning, UCRs are essentially:

Providing a dog with a treat (i.e., reward) for a certain behavior every fifth time that behavior is displayed is an example of which schedule of reinforcement?

Social learning refers to the fact that:

Avoidance and escape conditioning both involve:

Aristotle proposed the law of _____, which proposes that two events will be associated if they resemble each other.

Not every factor or variable affects an individual's ability to learn. Which one of the following is NOT influential with regard to classical conditioning?

You are house-sitting for a friend who has a large grandfather clock that chimes every 15 minutes. At first, you startle each time you hear it. However, after a short period of time, you don't even hear it anymore. You have undergone:

As described in the opening vignette, John Garcia found that:

I want to teach my cat that the sound of the can opener is a signal that she is being fed. I run the can opener after food is presented. Which form of conditioning is this?