Exam 5: Learning

A music teacher is working on a new piece with a student. At first, the teacher praises the student for playing correct notes. After the student has begun to play most of the notes correctly, the teacher praises the student only when the student plays the notes with the proper interpretation. This is an example of

Humans are more likely to develop phobias of spiders or snakes, rather than flowers or sheep. This is likely due to

Which is true of those who display a pessimistic explanatory style?

In instrumental conditioning, the term instrumental refers to the fact that:

For my cat to learn that the sound of the can opener signals that it is time to eat is posing a problem since the can opener has been heard by her hundreds of times without it being followed by food. This exemplifies:

I have come to associate my students' voices with their faces. I have made use of:

Which of the following reinforcement schedules is associated with the most difficulty in Extinguishing the response?

The reason why guys use pick-up lines can be explained by:

A decrease in sensitivity that occurs with paradoxical conditioning is called:

What do organisms learn in classical conditioning, according to Pavlov?

Chemotherapy patients may associate stimuli such as the nurse's voice or the treatment center with the nausea induced by the chemotherapy and thus become nauseated in response to those stimuli. Which of the following would be the most effective technique for counteracting this phenomenon?

Your teenage daughter misses curfew by 2 hours. You decide her punishment should be that she can't go out with her friends for a week. This would be an example of:

Irrational fears of specific objects or situations are known as:

Which of the following is the most fundamental concept underlying operant conditioning?

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 salivation while looking at the bag is a:

As you drive down the street, a leaf hits your windshield. You know that it is not going to break the windshield and yet you blink anyway. In classical conditioning, blinking to an object that is about to hit you in the face is a/an:

Normally, in classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus (CS) is usually:

Describe the little Albert experiment conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner. What was the impetus for doing that experiment?

If you administer an aversive event when the organism makes an unwanted response you are using:

If enough conditioning trials pass in which the operant is not followed by the consequence previously associated with it, the most likely outcome is