Exam 6: A: Learning

What is the term used to describe Ziggy responding to the phone with the need to go outside?

Which of the following would cause you the most difficulty if you were attempting to decrease the frequency of a behaviour, like eating junk food?

What is the difference between a student who studies in order to earn high grades, and a student who studies to avoid failure?

Henri got a bad sunburn on his face when he was skiing last winter. Now, before he starts a day of skiing, he uses sunscreen on his face to prevent another sunburn. What is the consequence of using sunscreen in this case?

What is learning, according to your text?

Which of the following could be accounted for by classical conditioning?

A pigeon learns to peck at a disk lighted green to receive reinforcement, but not at a disk lighted red. For this pigeon, what is the colour of the disk?

The continued presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus will result in the gradual disappearance of the conditioned response. What is this phenomenon called?

A rat is placed on one side of a two-compartment shuttle box. For each trial, a light is turned on and is followed 10 seconds later by a painful electric shock for one minute. The rat can escape the shock by jumping a barrier into the other compartment. What behaviour would provide evidence of avoidance learning?

Jeremy stops gambling five minutes after his slot machine last paid off; Jessica is still gambling, even though her slot machine hasn't paid off in over an hour. Which of the following describes their behaviours?

What is typical about the recovered response when a conditioned response shows spontaneous recovery?

Which of the following is most easily associated with a flavour according to the studies by Garcia and his colleagues?

Why did the experience that Seligman had with sauce béarnaise change his understanding of conditioning?

After a painful experience, Sebastien cringes every time he hears a dentist's drill, even when he is sitting in the waiting room of his dentist's office. What term applies to Sebastien's cringing in the waiting room, in this example?

What was the unconditioned response in Pavlov's original experiment on classical conditioning?

Mariah developed a fear of the water when she fell off a river raft last summer. This year she took swimming lessons and thought she had finally overcome her fear of water. She was eagerly anticipating an upcoming rafting trip; however, as soon as she stepped onto the raft she was instantly terrified again. What process does this illustrate?

You are watching a rat pressing a lever in a Skinner box to obtain food pellets. The rat is pressing the lever at a very high rate, and does not stop, even when a food pellet is delivered. Which type of reinforcement schedule is likely in place in this example?

When Kiara asks her grandmother for a cookie, her grandmother usually gives her one. Last week at the park, Kiara's mother was embarrassed when Kiara walked up to five different elderly ladies and asked them for cookies. What does Kiara's behaviour illustrate?

What is the result when reinforcement for a behaviour is removed?

Compare the acquisition procedures in classical and operant conditioning. What is the essential difference between the two types of conditioning?