Exam 28: Conditioning and Learning: Types of Learning

Learning includes changes in behavior as a result of

Even though you do not plan to be a teacher,you make mental notes of the way your teacher handles the class or explains a certain topic because it might come in handy one day.These mental notes you are making illustrate _______ learning.

New tools that make it easier for individuals to get feedback about their individual resource consumption are called

Billy's parents beg him not to smoke,but his parents smoke themselves.If Billy continues to smoke,he has been influenced by

In Bandura's classic Bo­Bo doll experiment,most of the children imitated all of the models,whether live,filmed,or cartoon.

When three-year-old Ashley hears her father at the door,she runs to the front door to greet him and receives a hug from her father.This hug is considered a consequence that has what effect on Ashley's response of running to the door?

After watching a great deal of televised violence,people often become less likely to react negatively to the violence,that is,they become _______ to it.

While Gabe was growing up,his father would get angry and yell and throw objects at the wall.As an adult now, Gabe also yells and throws objects when he gets angry.Gabe learned these behaviors through

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are two types of _______ learning.

An automatic,unlearned response is called a(n)

In which type of learning are reflex responses associated with new stimuli?

One approach to applying learning principles to improve conservation efforts involves which of the following regarding wasteful energy use and polluting?

Wearing a particular tie because you get lots of compliments when you wear it illustrates

Research suggests that children will usually model what parents

Which of the following occurs whenever a person or animal forms a simple connection among various stimuli and/or responses?

Many skills,such as playing a musical instrument,cake decorating,or learning to bat a baseball,are learned by what Albert Bandura called

In a classic experiment,two groups of rats explored a maze with the first group being rewarded with food at the end of the maze,while the second group wandered the maze but were unrewarded and showed no signs of learning.But later,when the "uneducated" rats were given food,they ran the maze as quickly as the rewarded group.The unrewarded animals had nevertheless learned their way around the maze,which demonstrated a type of learning referred to as

The fact that rats running a maze will go directly to a food goal box instead of a previously learned longer route indicates that rats

A salesman records his sales presentation and then plays it back so he can critique this presentation for voice level,speed of speech,and understandability.This salesman is making use of