Exam 6: Learning

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

The abbreviation UCS stands for ________.

A ________ stimulus is one that signals the presence of reinforcement.

The schedule of reinforcement described as being most resistant to extinction is ________.

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of ________ to accomplish this.

Which of the following is an example of discovery learning?

Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning, she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad. Over several weeks, she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys, immediately before leaving the house. Which phenomenon of learning best describes the dog's behaviour?

As a child, Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl. As he got older, the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten. Blaine is now in his early twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese. The geese gave him a stare, and Blaine experienced a sudden surge of fear. Blaine's fear response is an example of ________.

Describe how you would condition a child who is afraid of cats to enjoy playing with a neighbour's cat.

Which of the following statements pertaining to the conditioned response is accurate?

Learning that is not directly observable is called ________.

According to research, which of the following groups of individuals is most likely to act aggressively in adulthood?

Applied behaviour analysis (ABA)has been used with children diagnosed with autism. The basic principle of this form of behaviour modification is ________.

Which of the following will weaken the likelihood of behaviour reoccurring in the future?

Token economies are reinforcement-based strategies that use points, tokens, and chips as ________ reinforcers.

Acquisition can be described as the process in which

Sarah has just received her drivers' license and is now ready to drive to school. Although she's never driven to her school before, Sarah knows the way. The fact that Sarah can drive herself to school suggests that ________ has occurred.

Which theorist believed that most of learning occurred by trial and error?

Which of the following is true concerning Tolman and Honzik's classic study of latent learning?

________ is credited with developing the theory of classical conditioning.