Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

To change your own behaviour, it is important to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Match the contributions with the appropriate people. -emphasized the importance of observational learning

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -A relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) due to experience.

During half time at his high school's homecoming game, Rory has to go to the bathroom. The words Women and Men act as ________ for entering one door or the other.

In classical conditioning, the US-UR connection is ________ and the CS-CR connection is ________.

When words are paired with objects or other words that already elicit some emotional response, they may come to elicit that response. This would be an example of:

Carol noticed her roommates stopped making fun of her now that she has stopped taking singing lessons. Their treatment of her reflects an example of:

If a child learns to fear spiders and then responds to beetles with fear, then stimulus discrimination has occurred.

A ________ tells whether reinforcement is available.

Working in a room with a comfortable air temperature would be an example of a primary reinforcer.

Match the contributions with the appropriate people. -put the "cognitive" in social-cognitive theory

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement regarding punishment?

Using shaping and other techniques, Skinner was able to train pigeons to "bowl" in a miniature bowling alley.

The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction is called:

When salivation occurs in response to a previously neutral stimulus, it is called a/an:

When four-year-old Aislin goes on errands with her dad and whines for a treat, he stops somewhere and buys her a treat. But when she goes on errands with her mom, whining never ends up getting her a treat. Before long, Aislin only whines when she is going on errands with her dad. This is called:

A discriminative stimulus signals when a particular response is likely to be followed by a certain type of consequence.

"That is my opinion and nothing you say is going to change it!" In Chapter 1, What Is Psychology? one of the critical thinking guidelines that we learned about was "Examine the Evidence." Is your opinion supported by evidence? How reliable is this evidence? Did the evidence come from a reliable source? In Chapter 7, Learning and Conditioning, we read that many people assume that fines, long prison terms, yelling, and spanking are good ways to get rid of undesirable behaviours. What does the evidence show? What six drawbacks often lead punishment to fail?

Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of canine subjects and they began to salivate. His student noticed that after being brought to the laboratory a number of times, the dogs would begin to salivate at the sound of the person's footsteps. The salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a/an:

Higher-order conditioning involves using an already established ________ to establish a new conditioned stimulus.