Exam 6: Learning

If Little Albert had developed a fear of large white rats, but not of small white rats, psychologists would label that an example of ____.

In Pavlov's original studies, ____ is treated as the unconditioned stimulus.

Shaping occurs when ____.

Joseph tells his buddies at work a joke that makes fun of women. To his surprise, his friends ignore him for several days. 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?

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 ____.

When you break your curfew and your parents take away your car privileges in order to stop you from breaking curfew in the future, they are using ____.

When reinforcement for a behavior is withheld, an extinction burst is common. This extinction burst is a(n) ____.

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 originally neutral stimulus is ____.

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 ____.

The safest and most effective tool to change a child's behavior is ____.

Which type of response cannot be classically conditioned in humans?

When a classically conditioned response is no longer exhibited, ____.

Recent research suggests that migraines may be correlated with ____.

In Thorndike's work on the law of effect, he observed ____.

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

When your dog continually barks, you eventually pay less attention to the noise. This illustrates ____.

The orienting reflex is to ____, as habituation is to ____.

Television ads that use beautiful images to sell products are a good example of ____.

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 social learning ____.

Bandura's Bobo doll studies showed that ____.