Exam 6: Learning

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.In this example,the reinforcement schedule that is in place is MOST likely

Classical conditioning could easily account for how a young child might learn to

Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement)of a response are referred to as

According to Rescorla,the single best way to ensure a strong CR is to arrange that the CS

As a teenager it seemed that your mom was always nagging you to clean your room.Eventually you learned that if you cleaned your room every Saturday morning you would not have to listen to her nagging.Your mother was successful in getting you to clean your room through the use of ____ to establish ____.

The research of both Tolman and Bandura distinguishes between

In classical conditioning,an unconditioned stimulus is

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for decreasing the frequency of an undesirable behavior?

Conditioned taste aversions represent an unusual or atypical example of

The newest winning numbers in the state lottery are announced on the local television station every Saturday night,at the end of the news hour.People who are watching for the lottery numbers will have their "watching" reinforced on

Species-specific predispositions to be conditioned in certain ways and not in other ways is known as

Last year Becky went to a psychologist and was cured of her dog phobia.Today,however,while jogging in the park she was overcome with anxiety when she saw a young man jogging toward her with his golden retriever on a leash.Apparently,Becky's dog phobia

In higher-order conditioning ____ now functions as if it were ____.

Chimps are trained to perform a variety of tasks to get coins.The coins could then be traded in for banana chips which could be eaten.The coins served as a

On Tuesday morning,Chloe prepared her typical breakfast of corn flakes with milk and a cup of coffee.However,instead of having grapefruit with her breakfast,she tried eating guava for the first time.Later she became extremely ill.If her illness causes her to develop a conditioned response to one of her breakfast items,the conditioned response will MOST likely be to

Extinction of an operantly conditioned response occurs when the response

Shaquille is a professional basketball player.He never knows for sure which of his shots will result in a basket,but the more shots he takes the more baskets he makes.In this example,Shaquille's shooting is being reinforced on

Zane has been shocked on six separate occasions while making toast.However,he doesn't seem to have developed a phobia toward toasters.Zane's only phobia is toward spiders,because he once had a big spider fall in his shirt when he was child.Zane's pattern of phobias illustrates the concept of

The type of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences is

Dillon is four years old,and his parents want to teach him to say "please" and "thank you." They will be most successful in altering Dillon's behavior if they use