Exam 5: Learning

Over the course of 38 therapy sessions, Watson and Mary Cover Jones used all of the following strategies to remove Peter's fear of the white rabbit except

Which of the following is not one of the four factors that influences classical conditioning identified in the text?

Classical conditioning is to ________ responses as operant conditioning is to ________ responses.

What technique can be used when the behaviour desired from an organism is complex and not one that is likely to occur naturally?

The discovery of classical conditioning has been attributed to

What factor listed below did not lead Pavlov to determine that an extinguished conditioned response was not erased or forgotten, but only inhibited?

The important variable in determining whether a conditioned response will generalize to a stimulus other than the original conditioned stimulus depends mainly on the ________ of two stimuli.

People who are paid every week on Friday afternoon are on a

In Watson and Rayner's study with "Little Albert," what was the conditioned response?

The money Max's mother gives him for doing chores around the house is an example of a

For years Sylvester the Cat has been fed canned tuna fish that has been opened with an electric can opener. Now Sylvester races into the kitchen every time he hears the can opener. What is the conditioned stimulus in this example?

How does extinction occur in operant conditioning?

In observational learning the person who demonstrates a behaviour or whose behaviour is imitated is called the

Receiving a paycheque and being praised are examples of

Describe the processes that are comparable in classical and operant conditioning.

One of the most successful applications of behaviour modification has been in the treatment of psychological problems ranging from phobias to addictive behaviours.

"Time out" is a technique in which a child who is misbehaving is removed from sources of positive reinforcement for a short period of time.

How does the violence on television promote violence in real life?

Following conditioning, repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus will lead to a reduction and eventually a disappearance of the conditioned response. This phenomenon is referred to as

Which of the following is an example of a secondary reinforcer?