Exam 6: A: Conditioning and Learning

Learning that takes place through an association of stimuli is called

Many people start tensing up during a horror movie whenever they hear a familiar tune because this tune is always associated with a character being in danger.This situation illustrates

Classical conditioning is reinforced whenever the

A rat in a Skinner box presses the lever and receives a food pellet.This reinforcement will help the rat to

Mitzi's cat has learned to meow every time it hears the can opener because Mitzi opened the cat food using an electric can opener.The cat food now comes in pull-top cans,so the cat never receives food after hearing the can opener.Mitzi's cat stops meowing to the can opener,illustrating that which of the following has taken place?

If you give a child her favorite licorice candy for doing well in school,and she continues to do well in school,the licorice candy is

In terms of the informational view,operant conditioning occurs when we

From a response contingent viewpoint,which of the following tells a person or an animal that a response was "right" and worth repeating?

As stimuli become less like the original conditioned stimulus (CS),an organism's responding will

Learning that involves the pairing of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli is called

Forming a connection between the stimulus of a dog growling at you and the response of fear would be a type of __________learning.

Sieta wants to teach her daughter to say "Please" when she asks for something,so she decides to only comply with her daughter's request for something when her daughter says "Please." Thus,Sieta's compliance to her daughter's request is

In Pavlov's experiments with dogs,the conditioned response was the

Richard tells his new joke to three different people,and each one of them laughs.Because telling the joke led to laughter,which Richard enjoys,Richard will be more likely to tell this joke to other people.This situation illustrates

For rats in a Skinner box,very little learning occurs when the delay between bar pressing and receiving food exceeds __________ seconds.

In which type of associative learning are the antecedents the most important aspect for the learning to take place?

If you walk under a ladder and then break a leg,you may avoid ladders in the future.Each time you avoid a ladder and nothing happens,this avoidance action is reinforced.This illustrates

Pavlov's most famous experiment involved teaching dogs to do which of the following behaviors to a new stimulus?

After Pavlov had conditioned his dogs to salivate to the bell,he repeatedly presented the bell without presenting the food.As a result,which of the following occurred?

The animals learning to press a bar in a Skinner box showed NO signs of learning if the food reward followed a bar press by more than __________seconds.