Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -The application of conditioning techniques to teach new responses or to reduce or eliminate maladaptive or problematic behaviour.

Your dog Milo has learned to salivate at the sight of a bright blue food dish that says MILO. What phenomenon will be likely to occur if Milo catches sight of your brand-new, blue plastic cereal dish (which doesn't say MILO)? Assuming that you never give Milo food out of your cereal dish, what will eventually happen?

When the conditioned response reappears after extinction followed by a rest period, ________ has occurred.

It would be easiest to classically condition Yosef to acquire a fear of:

Contemporary psychologists have suggested that what an animal or person actually learns in classical conditioning is:

When undergoing chemotherapy to treat cancer, patients may generalize the nausea caused by chemotherapy to the place where the therapy takes place. When this occurs, the unconditioned response is:

For classical conditioning to be most effective, the neutral stimulus should ________ the unconditioned stimulus.

Reinforcers do not have to be things.

In classical conditioning, the responses involved tend to be ________, but in operant conditioning they are ________.

A discriminative stimulus may be verbal, such as a sign that reads "Store hours from 9:00 to 5:00."

Aversion to taste may occur after only one pairing of the food with illness.

Operant conditioning is most closely associated with:

A variation of the counterconditioning procedure used in the treatment of Peter's fear of rabbits has been used to treat adult phobias. This variation is called:

Elton's mother has been nagging and nagging that he should stop fooling around with his guitar and start studying. Finally, in order to stop her nagging, Elton complies and hits the books. This example illustrates"

________ would occur if your friends teased you for being an egghead because you studied so much.

Brett's mom keeps a chart on his bedroom wall and adds a gold star for each day that his room is clean. His mom is using ________ to strengthen the response.

B. F. Skinner was one of the best known psychologists in the United States, and also one of the most misunderstood. Which of the following is an INACCURATE statement regarding B. F. Skinner?

What does S-R stand for?

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -A process in which an individual learns new responses by observing the behaviour of another (a model) rather than through direct experience.

The automatic, involuntary responses involved in blood pressure and muscle contractions cannot be classically conditioned.