Exam 6: Learning

A ________ reinforcer is any reward that naturally increases the frequency of a target behaviour.

Researchers studying the effects of television violence on aggression have found that

Which of the following theories provides the safest strategies for teaching a child to cross a busy street?

You need to remove a broken light globe from a lamp. Without a pair of gloves, you are likely to cut yourself on the jagged glass. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you can use a cut potato to remove the light globe from the socket. You have just demonstrated ________.

Which of the following is reflective of Seligman's research on conditioned taste aversion?

The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behaviour is called ________.

In Pavlov's "salivating dogs" studies, the UCS was

In Pavlov's classic salivating dog experiment, meat powder was the ________ stimulus.

Julia served in the war in Iraq and was severely traumatised when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded next to her Humvee. Recently, Julia was studying in the library and a large book fell off a high shelf and banged on the floor. The noise brought Julia instantly to her feet. In terms of classical conditioning, her response can best be explained by ________.

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between a CS and a UCS when discussing conditioned taste aversions?

Which of the following describes the main difference between observational learning and operant conditioning?

Concerning cognitive maps, which is likely true?

________ is an operant-conditioning procedure in which actions are reinforced as they get closer and closer to a particular target behaviour.

Albert Bandura and his colleagues were able to get the same findings in their observational learning research when children watched aggressive models on film as they did when children watched aggressive models in person. This lent additional support for Bandura's claims that observational learning represents a significant process by which certain behaviours are acquired. This demonstrates the critical-thinking concept of ________.

Which of the following is most representative of research concerning learning styles?

For several weeks, Allen had to clean the men's restroom at the restaurant where he worked. The task always made him nauseated. He has since gone on to better things, but still cannot walk by the door to a men's restroom without becoming slightly queasy. For Allen, the door to the men's room has become a(n)________.

Ken's mouth waters every time he hears the ice-cream truck's familiar song in the distance. One day, a slightly different song is heard in the distance and Ken's mouth waters. Ken's behaviour illustrates

After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome, he experimented with sounding the metronome but not presenting the meat powder to the dogs. Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome. This represents the process called ________.

If you owned a business and needed to increase worker productivity, describe how you would do so using operant conditioning. Outline the reinforcers that you would employ and the schedules of reinforcement that you would use.

The "aha!" experience is known as ________.