Exam 6: Learning

Preparedness suggests that people would MOST easily develop phobias toward

Negative reinforcement ____ the rate of a response; punishment ____ the rate of a response.

Imagine that you are an advertising executive and that your sales have been dropping for a particular brand of laundry detergent.You want to design a set of advertisements that makes people feel good when they see your detergent and then you want to reinforce people for buying your product.How would you design advertisements that would condition people to feel good when they see your product and how would you reinforce people for buying your detergent?

When resistance to extinction is high,it means that

A conditioned stimulus is

Mary takes a course in which she is tested every two weeks.Her studying falls off right after a test,followed by a gradual increase to a rapid rate of studying as the next test approaches.Her studying conforms to the typical pattern of responding maintained on

Classical conditioning could account for how a child learns to

In the Featured Study by Bandura on the power of modeling,the children who were most likely to play aggressively with the Bobo doll were the children who saw a film of "Rocky" behaving

The predominant view among learning theorists today is

People often incorrectly confuse punishment with ____________________.

Pavlov became interested in conditioning when he observed laboratory dogs

A pigeon learns to peck at a disk lighted green to receive reinforcement,but not at a disk lighted red.This means that,for the pigeon,the color of the disk is a

Resistance to extinction occurs when a previously extinguished response reappears after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

Angela came home after her curfew last night; as a result,her parents have taken away her driving privileges for 1 week.What discipline technique are Angela's parents using?

Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate to the sound of a tone.He then paired a light with the tone until the dog salivated to the light alone.This is an example of

Assuming you have eaten sour pickles before,imagine eating a large,juicy sour pickle.If just thinking about the pickles causes your mouth to water,your salivation would be

The learning theory that is best able to explain why physical punishment tends to increase aggressive behavior in children is

In terms of reinforcement schedules,interval schedules always relate to the

According to Bandura,your motivation to perform an observed response depends on