Exam 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US

A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ___________ and thus ________ the probability of a response.

If you wanted to see a consistent rate of responding then you should use either type of variable reinforcement schedule.

Reinforcement that is given for a response emitted after each hour and a half (e.g., 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m.) in time is most likely to be a ________ schedule.

A monthly paycheck best represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. You sound the bell and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit. You do this several times but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because _________.

Classical conditioning was accidentally discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov while he was studying salivation.

Reinforcement is to punishment as ________.

The learning of phobias is a very good example of which certain type of classical conditioning?

Your text authors present the case of ________ in order to suggest how the process of learning operates (in a general sense).

A conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the paired presentation of the UCS. After time, the subject no longer makes the conditioned response. This fading of the CR is known as habituation.

Carolyn desperately wants to lose weight, but finds it so difficult to resist the temptation of snack foods. Her difficulty in losing weight probably stems from the powerful effects of ________.

After graduating from college, you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist. The workers put together iPods. They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of iPods they put together in a day. You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of iPods put together). According to Skinner, you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

Getting paid for each basket of apples you gather represents which schedule of reinforcement?

A behavioral intervention for treating anticipatory nausea is ________.

Punishment is MOST effective ________.

Which of the following is true about a Skinner box?

Bandura's seminal study of observational learning involved watching children and their interactions with Bobo dolls.

Discuss how, using classical conditioning principles-particularly "conditioned compensatory response"- one may overdose on drugs when taking the drug in a novel setting.

Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "Bobo" doll study. The term Bobo refers to ____________.

Which of the following statements is true about operant conditioning?