Exam 6: Learning

When you open a combination lock, you first turn the lock to one number. The reinforcement for that response is the opportunity to turn it to the second number, which is reinforced by the opportunity to turn to the third number, which opens the lock. This series of behaviors illustrates the concept of

A tone is followed by shock until the rat consistently responds to the tone. Then, the tone is accompanied by a light for several additional trials. In later test trials the tone or light is presented separately, the rat will show strong reaction to the tone and little or no reaction to the light. This phenomenon is called the

Drug tolerance for morphine or heroin develops quickly when

What is chaining in operant conditioning?

Thorndike set up experiments in which cats escaped from puzzle boxes. He argued that learning by the cats was not due to insight or understanding, because if it were

When your professor arrives and opens his notes, you stop talking to the person next to you and prepare to take notes. This situation is most clearly an example of

A person who has developed a drug tolerance to a specific drug could temporarily reduce or eliminate the tolerance by

In operant conditioning, a continuous reinforcement schedule is one in which

Many people are not deterred by the strict punishments that the U.S. government imposes for selling illegal drugs. This lack of effect is probably due to the

Who of the following was the first to investigate operant conditioning?

Ranchers in the western United States have deterred coyotes from eating sheep by

You observe that your older cousin has become a successful physician, so you decide you would like to become a physician too. What kind of learning has taken place here?

According to the disequilibrium principle,

If you cannot spend as much time as you would like engaged in a particular activity, that activity will function as a reinforcer. This statement describes the:

What characterizes a methodological behaviorist?

A psychologist conducts an experiment on classical conditioning. Which of the following will NOT be present on the first trial?

The procedure for producing extinction in classical conditioning is to present

In an experiment by Bandura, Ross, and Ross, one group of children watched a film in which someone violently attacked an inflated doll. Another group watched a film in which no one attacked the doll. At the end of the film, both groups were put in a room with an inflated doll. Who (if anyone) attacked the doll?

Suppose you wanted to study learning in alligators. You give an alligator food if it approaches a green wall but not if it approaches a red wall. After hundreds of trials the alligator still approaches each wall equally. Which of the following conclusions is best?

In an experiment on classical conditioning, the researcher presents a noise, followed by a puff of air to the eyes. The air puff elicits a blink of the eyes, and after a few pairings the noise does also. In this procedure, the conditioned stimulus is the __________ and the conditioned response is __________.