Exam 28: Conditioning and Learning: Types of Learning

If your mouth waters each time you eat a cookie,you may learn to salivate when you merely see a cookie or a picture of cookie.Your mouth watering to the sight of a cookie illustrates

Associative learning occurs whenever a person or an animal forms a simple connection among various

During modeling,once a new response is tried,normal reinforcement or feedback determines whether it will be repeated thereafter.

In which type of learning is an antecedent stimulus that does not produce a response linked with a stimulus that does produce the response?

A behavior may be followed by a positive consequence,or reinforcer,such as food;or by a negative consequence,or punisher,such as a slap;or by nothing with these results determining whether a response is likely to be made again.The type of learning just described is

Classical conditioning is based on

A critical variable in determining whether modeled behavior will be imitated is

Unlocking the secrets of which type of learning begins with noting what happens before and after a particular behavior?

Which of the following teaches students in a format that presents information in small amounts,gives immediate practice,and provides continuous feedback to learners?

By observing a model,a person may learn all of the following EXCEPT

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

Cognitive learning involves

In which type of associative learning are the consequences the most important aspect for the learning to take place?

Cindy has watched her mother cook for several months.However,today her mother is ill so Cindy offers to cook. Cindy has never had to cook before,but she does an excellent job without any assistance.This demonstrates

In the introduction to Module 27,Larry's story about how he developed a fear of rats was told.It seems that Larry learned to fear rats when as a child he heard his mother tearfully describe how,as a little girl,she was terrified by a rat scampering out of a wood pile.Thus,Larry's fear of rats developed through a form of associative learning called

Many people are now calculating the volume of greenhouse gases that their consumption adds to the atmosphere,which is referred to as their

Regarding observational learning,or modeling,which of the following statements is FALSE?

You have a mental picture of how your city is organized so that you can easily take an alternate route if there is a traffic jam.Psychologists call this a(n)

Regarding learning principles being applied to recycling efforts,which of the following statements is FALSE?

Events that occur just after a response are called