Exam 6: Learning

Positive punishment ____.

Describe Albert Bandura's Bobo doll studies and their implications.

When an organism begins to respond more intensely to a stimulus to which it has previously habituated, then ____ has occurred.

Pavlov's original experiment was an example of ____.

Teresa had a bad experience at the dentist's office when she had a painful root canal. As a result, Teresa has not been to the dentist in five years. Which type of learning best explains Teresa's failure to go to the dentist in the last five years?

When advertisers use well known, attractive people to sell their products, the attractive people are being used as a(n) ____.

Describe how Ivan Pavlov unwittingly discovered his model of classical conditioning.

What do fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval, and fixed interval schedules of reinforcement all have in common?

In operant conditioning, when a behavior that has been reinforced in one context begins to be exhibited in other contexts and situations, ____ has occurred.

Strict behaviorism tends to ____.

Vicki, an animal trainer, needs to train a bear to dance for a role in a Hollywood movie. Which technique will Vicki most likely use to accomplish this task?

Classical conditioning is to ____ as operant conditioning is to ____.

Susanna has been classically conditioned to feel anxiety every time she walks through the anti-theft security devices at a local store because in the past she has set off the alarm many times when clerks failed to demagnetize her purchases. Susanna has the best chance of eliminating her classically conditioned anxiety by ____.

Social learning is often referred to as ____.

When a parent gives into a child's tantrum in order to stop the child's tantrum behavior, this leads to a greater likelihood that when the child throws a tantrum in the future, the parent will give in again. This change in the parent's behavior is an example of ____.

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

According to the principles of operant conditioning, when reinforcement for a behavior is stopped, ____.

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 ____.

Dr. Trujillo is conducting studies on classical conditioning and experimenting on the effect of sometimes presenting the unconditioned stimulus without the neutral stimulus. She is investigating the element of ____.

If you have developed an extreme negative reaction to chicken because it was associated with a case of the flu in your childhood, you have a ____.