Exam 6: Learning

The conditioned stimulus is defined as

Which type of neuron becomes active when we engage in observational learning?

The ________ effect refers to the sudden reemergence of a conditioned response following extinction when an animal is returned to the environment in which the conditioned response was first acquired.

Suppose a student uses inappropriate language in class. Describe how you would attempt to change this student's behaviour using positive or negative reinforcement.

Extinction occurs when the ________ no longer produces the ________.

John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a gong with a steel hammer. After several pairings, the child came to fear the white rat. The white rat served as the ________ in his study.

According to the theory of classical conditioning, an unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that elicits

The activity of mirror neurons is most salient in a discussion of ________ learning.

________ increases the likelihood of behaviour being repeated, while ________ decreases the likelihood of behaviour being repeated.

Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is accurate?

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?

After a CS comes to elicit the CR, the CS now can be paired with a new neutral stimulus and this second neutral stimulus will start to elicit a CR. This process is called ________.

Most token economy conditioning strategies use chips, tokens, or points as ________ reinforcers.

Learned behaviour is less prone to extinction if it is conditioned by ________ reinforcement.

________ was an advocate of radical behaviourism.

A teacher states that all students who complete five word problems by the end of class will be exempt from homework. The teacher is using a(n)________ schedule of reinforcement.

The process by which a CS gradually loses its ability to produce a CR is called ________.

Which of the following represents the findings of David Premack?

The precursor to Pavlov's groundbreaking work on classical conditioning came from a group of scholars called the British ________, who believed that we acquire all of our knowledge by forming associations between stimuli (what would later be called conditioning).

One can be conditioned to become sexually aroused at the sight of a triangle if the triangle is presented shortly ________ an appropriate ________.