Exam 6: D: Conditioning and Learning

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 illustrates a(n) __________,or CER.

Tyler's a 12-year-old child who is frequently punished by his father,often lies about his whereabouts and stays at a friend's house rather than going home.Tyler is demonstrating avoidance learning.

The perspective that explains learning as a mental expectancy of an upcoming association between two events is known as the __________ view.

Describe three ways in which conditioning techniques can be used to help people learn how to conserve energy resources.

Continuous reinforcement is more resistant to extinction than partial reinforcement.

Young children may temporarily call all men daddy,much to the embarrassment of their parents,which illustrates operant stimulus __________.

Explain the importance of antecedents and consequences for learning,and then compare and contrast classical and operant conditioning,including the role of antecedents and consequences,the type of response,the role of the learner,the nature of the learning,and the learned expectancy for each.

We pick up phones that are ringing,but rarely answer phones that are silent,which illustrates the concept of stimulus control.

Compared to learning by rote,discovery learning produces a better understanding of new problems.

In Pavlov's experiments,the meat powder (food)placed on the dog's tongue was the conditioned stimulus.