Exam 5: Learning

The use of a strong CS to create a second CS is called:

A box used in operant conditioning of animals that limits the available responses and,thus,increases the likelihood that the desired response will occur is called a:

The chapter-opening story describes how Dr.Pierce taught rats to associate sweet-tasting foods with no calories.He then exposed these rats to a sweet-tasting,calorie-rich pre-meal and found that over the next three hours these rats ate significantly more than control rats.Which of the following explains these results best?

Canadian researchers who study "pathological gamblers" have found significant differences between the genders in all areas of this problem

University of British Columbia professor Gerald Gorn applied the concept of classical condition to four separate groups of McGill students.The first group was shown slides of a blue pen as music they liked (from the Grease soundtrack)played in the background.The second group was shown slides of a beige pen as music from India (which most of them disliked.played in the background.The third group was shown the beige pen with the preferred Grease music.The fourth group saw the blue pen and heard the Indian music.Later each group was asked to choose between a blue pen and beige pen.In this study,music was the:

Kelsey just told her family a really funny joke that she made up herself.In order to use a primary reinforcer to encourage her in her joke-telling,Kelsey's dad might:

Dad is watching a home improvement show about how to install a new sink.He really wants to do it and watches the show intently.He knows that his wife will reward him when he is done.However,when he tests the new sink,water spurts everywhere.Taking the new sink apart,he finds that he has left out the crucial washers in the faucet assembly even though this step was emphasized in the TV show.What of Bandura's four necessary components of observational learning is likely responsible for the sink assembly problem?

What kind of reinforcement is used if Sally's parents give her $10 every time she accumulates four As on her tests?

According to Rescorla's theory,the CS must _______ the UCS or conditioning does not occur.

Often people with certain types of cancer must take chemotherapy treatments.The drugs used in these treatments are powerful and usually cause strong nausea reactions.If Cindy had scrambled eggs for breakfast and then took a chemotherapy treatment later that same morning,what might we predict based on conditioned taste aversion research?

A congressional hearing is taking place in Washington,D.C.The representatives are discussing whether the portrayals of violence on children's TV shows are perhaps contributing to the violence we see in schools today.What psychological process are the representatives probably considering as the reason that TV influences school violence?

In Bandura's study of observational learning,the acronym AMIM stands for:

An illusion is:

The current view of why classical conditioning works the way it does,advanced by Rescorla and others,adds the concept of _____________ to conditioning theory.

The concept of latent learning was developed by:

Why does fear caused by punishment make the punishment ineffective in changing behaviour?

Which schedule of reinforcement best illustrates the responses of a person playing a VLT?

What would you predict about Little Albert based on the principle of spontaneous recovery?

Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of learning?

In the "Little Albert" study,the fear-producing stimulus used as a UCS was the: