Exam 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US

When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a _____________ schedule.

A _____________________ reinforcer is any reward that satisfies a basic, biological need, such a hunger, thirst, or touch.

Responses are emitted in operant conditioning, whereas they are elicited in classical conditioning.

What would you predict about Little Albert based on the principle of spontaneous recovery?

All of the following are general commonalities between classical and operant conditioning except ________.

Zeke, a toddler, starts to jump up and down after seeing his older sister do so. This example illustrates ________.

In Bandura's Bobo doll study, children who observed an adult ignore the Bobo doll ________.

As a teenager, Jill, while sitting at a bus stop, realized that a large spider was on her leg; she then darted away from the bus stop but was hit in the head by a bottle that someone had been throwing into a nearby trashcan. Even though Jill doesn't have a fear of bottles, she vehemently fears spiders. This example specifically illustrates ________.

Which learning theorist is responsible for the discovery of conditioned taste aversions?

Simultaneous conditioning is a form of forward conditioning.

Which of the following statements regarding Pavlov is accurate?

What major form of learning is involved when a child learns to recite the alphabet?

In Pavlov's initial classical conditioning studies, ________ served as the CS.

Learning that occurs but is not immediately reflected in a behavior change is called ______.

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a ________.

Catching fish when fishing in a lake would most likely represent which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

Anticipatory nausea is a classically conditioned response to aromatherapy triggered by a CS.

The idea that learning occurs and is stored up, even when behaviors are not reinforced, is called ______.

John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the __________________ in his study.

Which type of learning occurs when we observe how other people act?