Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

Suppose that your cat has been classically conditioned to the sound of an electric can opener when you open a can of cat food. How would the cat respond when there is a great sale on dry cat food and for one month you don't use the can opener?

Which of the following factors is NOT true with regard to the effectiveness of punishment?

In order for latent learning to occur, there must be obvious reinforcement.

Social-cognitive learning theorists and behaviourists would agree that:

Food and water would be examples of:

A stimulus that is inherently reinforcing is called a primary reinforcer.

When Danny feeds his fish, he notices that they swim to the top as soon as he turns on the aquarium light. In this example, the ________ is the conditioned stimulus.

Serena's friends ask her to meet them at a new restaurant. She is hesitant about catching up with them because she has never been to that specific address. Serena finds her way there because she experienced ________ when driving to other addresses in that part of town.

As the activities director of a nursing home, Betty wants to help the residents become more independent and to make many of their own daily decisions. Create an example describing how Betty could use positive reinforcement in order to strengthen the independence of the residents.

Match the descriptions with the appropriate concept. -During operant conditioning, the tendency for an organism to revert to instinctive behaviour.

To modify your own behaviour, set goals that are demanding but realistic.

Pavlov called the phenomenon that he had stumbled upon a "________," but an error in the translation of his writings was made.

Stimulus generalization occurs when a stimulus that resembles the conditioned stimulus elicits the conditioned response.

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

In Pavlov's studies of classical conditioning in dogs, the food dish was the:

________ is defined as a procedure in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus.

In the late 1800s, Edward Thorndike set the stage for operant conditioning procedures when he observed cats as they tried to escape from a puzzle box to get a scrap of fish.

Noam'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.

Albert Bandura is well known for his study of:

Negative emotions and dislikes can be classically conditioned, but it is difficult to use this technique to condition positive emotions.