Exam 6: Learning

 Vera wants to classically condition her dog to associate the sight of his leash with going outside.To do this,she must keep in mind that to get the strongest conditioning possible,she will have to ____. 

 Juan feels nauseous every time he eats pizza because one time he ate pizza just before coming down with a stomach virus.Juan's nausea is most likely due to ____. 

 Tovah's office has a "cuss jar" and when someone swears,he or she is expected to put a dollar in the cuss jar.This is an example of the use of ____. 

 B.F.Skinner and Edward Tolman would have disagreed about the importance of ____ in affecting behavior. 

 Continuous schedules of reinforcement are to ____ as partial schedules of reinforcement are to ____. 

 Years of research has shown that children who experience physical punishment are ____. 

 Ashley learned to fear clowns after being startled at the age of three by the sudden appearance of a particularly loud and colorful clown.Later,she began to fear anyone in a costume and mask.This would be an example of ____. 

 In classical conditioning,contiguity is to ____ as contingency is to ____. 

 Slot machines pay out according to a ____ schedule of reinforcement. 

 Joseph told his buddies at work a joke that made fun of women.To his surprise,no one laughed at the joke,and one person even scolded him for telling it.As a result,Joseph decided never again to tell a joke like that at work.Joseph's experience is an example of what principle of learning? 

 What do Albert Bandura,Wolfgang Kohler,and Edward Tolman all have in common? 

 Which statement is most TRUE of shaping? 

 Secondary reinforcers ____. 

 Positive reinforcement and negative punishment are ____.​ 

 Which statement is TRUE about spontaneous recovery? 

 In classical conditioning,extinction occurs when the ____. 

 Polly sees her mother baking cookies one day.Two weeks later at kindergarten,Polly and her friends are playing house and Polly begins to mimic the steps she saw her mother going through when making the cookies.Polly's play acting in kindergarten shows that ____. 

 Carolyn is training her new puppy Ollie using a method called clicker training.The first step is to click a clicker and give Ollie a treat.In this case,the unconditioned stimulus is ____. 

 Describe how operant conditioning is similar to and different from classical conditioning.

 Habituation describes the ____.