Exam 6: Learning

While on vacation, Juana eats bologna and then suffers an attack of car sickness. Now, when Juana even thinks of bologna, she feels sick to her stomach. How can Juana get to the point where she can once again eat bologna without feeling sick?

Terry is trying to study in the student center. At first, he finds it hard to concentrate because of all the noise and conversation going on around him. However, after a few minutes, Terry is able to tune out the noise and concentrate on his studies. Terry's experience is an example of what type of learning?

Shane's mother tells him that if he is not quiet when she is working, he will not be allowed to play computer games later in the evening. Shane's mother is using ____.

When an extinction burst occurs, it suggests that the organism ____.

When we are presented with a new stimulus that repeats itself, at first we would exhibit ____, and then after a while we would exhibit ____.

Learning is ____.

Social learning involves ____.

Which statement is most TRUE of shaping?

Freddie used to feed her cat canned cat food. Now every time Freddie uses the can opener, her cat gets very excited and starts meowing. In this example, the neutral stimulus is ____.

Tolman's research showing that rats can learn a maze even when they are not rewarded ____.

Shaping differs from simple reinforcement in that ____.

Suppose a behavior that has been extinguished temporarily exhibits itself again. This would be a(n) ____.

Sam recently lost his grandmother. Now Sam feels sad whenever he smells the perfume his beloved grandmother used to wear. In this example, Sam's sadness is the ____.

Although hunger naturally occurs in response to an empty stomach, we can easily become conditioned to feel hunger at certain times of the day due to classical conditioning. In this case, the US would be the ____.

Operant conditioning is to ____ as classical conditioning is to ____.

Which statement is TRUE regarding punishment compared to reinforcement?

Explain how Kohler's study of chimpanzees came to point to the importance of cognition in learning.

Which term refers to the degree to which the NS/CS and US occur close together in time?

Whenever you walk into your grandparent's house, you notice the wintergreen smell of the cream they rub into their knees to relieve the pain of arthritis. However, after you have been there for a while, you no longer notice it. This is because of ____.

Habituation describes the ____.