Exam 7: Learning From Experience

Bandura has claimed that responses are weakened during observational learning through:

According to the theory that drug tolerance develops as a classically conditioned response, who is more likely to overdose?

When we observe someone perform a behavior we are trying to learn, the area of the brain containing mirror neurons becomes active.This is the:

In a(n) ____________________ schedule of reinforcement, the time between reinforcements will vary from trial to trial after a response.

Psychologists use the term ____________________ to refer to the situation in which our response to an event increases rather than decreases with repeated exposure.

Research on classical conditioning was conducted by which of the following:

In classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus is:

A relatively permanent change in behavior, or potential behavior, that results from experience is called ____________________.

Juana is watching her tennis coach demonstrate a backstroke, and plans to repeat the behavior as best as she can.Learning by watching the coach probably involves a lot of activity in her:

An increase in responsiveness to an event following repeated exposure to the event is referred to as:

A doctor who wants to develop a new diet based on the concept of habituation would probably tell people to:

Bandura believes much of what we learn from an experience depends upon our:

Operant conditioning can be thought of as learning:

Instrumental conditioning is another name for:

One approach to treating alcoholism is to give the person a drug that makes him or her throw up after he or she drinks alcohol in hopes that alcohol will lose its appeal.This is based on the concept of:

Research on observational learning was conducted by which of the following?

A doctor who developed a new diet based on eating the same foods over-and-over again would be capitalizing on the phenomenon known as:

If you were explaining the concept of punishment to another student, the most accurate explanation would be that punishment:

Elizabeth wants to train her cat to drool at the sound of the telephone, so she plans to pair the sound of the ringing telephone with a tasty piece of tuna.To use classical conditioning most effectively, Elizabeth should present the tuna:

Explain what is meant by conditioned inhibition.How can conditioned inhibition have adaptive value?