Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

In the late 1800s, G. Stanley Hall conducted a study of anger. One case involved a three-year-old girl who asked a calm question right in the middle of a tantrum. Evidently, the child:

Deciding whether to provide continuous reinforcement, or one of the intermittent schedules of reinforcement, is an important issue in effective operant conditioning. If you want a response to persist after it has been learned, what schedule would best suit your needs? Paige wants to make sure that her roommate, Kelly, continues to keep clutter off Paige's desk now that Kelly has learned to keep it clutter-free. Describe a schedule of reinforcement that would be effective given Paige's goal.

When Pavlov first noticed that his dogs were salivating to things other than food, he called the phenomenon a:

When their cancer is treated through chemotherapy, individuals may generalize the nausea caused by chemotherapy to the place where the therapy takes place. When this occurs, the conditioned response is:

According to the behaviourists:

Match the contributions with the appropriate people. -first proposed social-learning theory

Many automatic, involuntary responses, including heartbeat and stomach secretions, have been classically conditioned.

The use of operant conditioning techniques in real-world settings is called:

John Watson and his colleague Rosalie Rayner showed Little Albert a live white rat. Albert:

The conditioned stimulus allows an organism to prepare for an event that is about to happen.

Match the definitions with the appropriate concept. -The classical-conditioning term for a response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus.

List six reasons why punishment fails.

A car manufacturer places an ad for its newest model in Playboy magazine, hoping that it will increase sales. In this case, the car is a/an ________ and the female models throughout the magazine would presumably serve as ________.

Having one's hair lightly stroked would be a secondary reinforcer.

When a response is first acquired, learning is usually most rapid if the response is reinforced on a:

Which of the following statements regarding Pavlov is accurate?