Exam 5: Learning

An unlearned response in which an organism attends to a stimulus is called a(n) ___________ ___________.

Professor Fournier gives a quiz every Monday. His students would then tend to __________ because they are on a __________ schedule of reinforcement.

When you are beginning to train your dog to "sit," it is most effective to put him on

People and lower animals have learned to control autonomic responses in order to attain reinforcement with the use of

Learned responses are extinguished when conditioned stimuli are no longer associated with unconditioned stimuli.

During Pavlov's classic experiments, after conditioning, the bell was the __________, and salivation was the __________.

The term extinction can be a bit misleading because

__________________ is the tendency for a conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.

All of the following are family factors that contribute to the likelihood of aggression in children EXCEPT

Spontaneous recovery of extinguished responses in operant conditioning supports the notion that the

Repeated exposure to TV violence may cause ____________, thereby decreasing sensitivity to real violence.

Your dog is upset and agitated around your new cat. Your new cat is not particularly happy around your dog, either. Then you start to feed them together, side by side. They begin to like each other (or at least tolerate each other). This happened in accordance with what principle?

Reinforcing successive steps towards a behavioral goal is called

What does extinction in operant conditioning involve?

An environmental condition that elicits a response is called a ___________.

What usually takes only one trial to condition successfully?

__________ helped to determine the principles of observational learning.

Punishment is an aversive event that _________ the frequency of the behavior it follows.

The two types of reinforcers distinguished by Skinner are

A conditioned stimulus (CS) is a stimulus that elicits a response from an organism prior to conditioning.