Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

The "Little Albert" study continues to be one of the most frequently replicated experiments in psychology.

Professor Inglot gives a student a D on a term paper that was completely inadequate. The D grade is an example of:

Every time Josh learned a new skateboarding trick, his dad gave him a word of encouragement. Josh's dad was trying to improve Josh's skateboarding skills by using:

A favourite experimental tool of radical behaviourists is the Skinner box. Describe how Skinner demonstrated operant conditioning of a rat using the Skinner box.

In the initial salivary reflex studied by Pavlov, what was the unconditioned response?

Classical conditioning has occurred if your mouth begins to water when you hear your dad say, "Come on in, dinner's ready!"

________ helps explain why Ryan thinks that he will score more goals when he wears his lucky jersey signed by Wayne Gretzky.

Match the definitions with the appropriate concepts. -A procedure in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus.

If you give your child a quarter every time he makes his bed, you are using:

In the "Little Albert" study, the conditioned stimulus was a rat.

Learning refers to:

Match the types of learning with the appropriate names. -Puzzle boxes

Edward Tolman and his colleague C. H. Honzik noted that ________ is not immediately expressed in an overt response.

Punishing a child's misbehaviour is most effective if there is a delay between the behaviour and the punishment so that the child has time to mull over the consequence to come.

A conditioned stimulus is an initially neutral stimulus that elicits a conditioned response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Mild punishers, such as a firm "No!" are as effective as stronger punishers would be if used in the same situation.

College students looked at slides of either beige pens or blue pens while either appealing or unappealing music played in the background. Based on this procedure, it is evident that the researchers are studying:

Classical conditioning has occurred if your mouth begins to water when you see a picture of your favourite meal on the menu.

When a dog has been classically conditioned to salivate in response to the sound of middle C on a piano, and then salivates when someone plays the D by mistake, ________ has occurred.

A problem for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy involves the nausea and/or vomiting that the treatment often produces. What role does generalization play in this problem? How has higher-order conditioning been illustrated?