Exam 6: Learning

What principle of learning is Mayra demonstrating when she tells her daughter that she does not have to do the dishes for a week because she did so well on her weekly spelling test at school?

Frank buys his daughter a computerized toy that is teaching her to read. As she reads the text of a book, the computer asks her questions, which she answers by pointing to the answers with a specialized stylus. If she gets the answers correct, the computer applauds. If she gets the answer wrong, the computer requests another answer. This toy is analogous to ____.

Which response can be classically conditioned in humans?

Thorndike is to ____ as Skinner is to ____.

Which item is a primary reinforcer?

Sabrina went to open a can of tuna fish for lunch. As soon as she clicked the can opener to the can, Tibbet, her tabby cat, appeared as though by magic. How can classical conditioning be used to explain this situation?

What is a step in Bandura's theory of the process involved in social learning?

Primary reinforcers are more ____ than secondary reinforcers.

Whenever Carlotta's husband takes out the trash she gives him a big hug, with the hope that he'll associate his task with a positive consequence. What is this an example of?

A token economy makes use of a(n) ____.

Joseph tells his buddies at work a joke that makes fun of women. To his surprise, his friends scolded him. As a result, Joseph decides never again to tell a joke like that at work. Joseph's experience is an example of what type of consequence?

In one of Albert Bandura's Bobo doll studies, children observed a model behaving aggressively toward the Bobo doll without receiving any positive or negative consequences for the behavior. Later, when these children were given an opportunity to be with the Bobo doll, they tended to ____.

When treating alcoholism with aversion therapy, the drug called disulfiram is used as the ____.

Dr. Trujillo is conducting studies on classical conditioning and experimenting on the effect of placing the neutral stimulus either before or after the unconditioned stimulus. She is investigating the element of ____.

Taste aversions provide an "exception to the rule" in classical conditioning because they ____.

In operant conditioning, when a behavior that has been reinforced exhibits itself only in certain situations or contexts, ____ has occurred.

Which statement is true about habituation?

Classical conditioning is to____ as operant conditioning is to ____.

Social learning researchers Donna Mumme and Anne Fernald found that 12-month-old children ____.

Chang gets paid a $50 bonus for every 100 pairs of shoes that he sells. Chang is being reinforced on a ____ schedule of reinforcement.