Exam 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US

If Steven's ________ has been removed, then autonomic responses of fear will probably disappear.

What is the basic theme behind social learning theory?

________ was accidentally discovered by Garcia and colleagues when they studied the effects of radiation on rats.

Harmony notices that her cat salivates as soon as her cat hears the sound of Harmony opening a can with an electric can opener. In this example, the _______________ is the conditioned stimulus.

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20. What schedule of reinforcement is being used?

You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar, and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer. When you put in another dollar, you get another soda. Assuming that the machine does not run out of root beer, which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on?

A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert. This type of learning is BEST explained by _______________.

Toby, a 4-year-old, tends to be willing to forego a small reward now for a big one tomorrow. Consequently, years from now, Toby will be more likely to be ________.

Anticipatory nausea is seen in some people who ________.

_____________ is an operant-conditioning procedure in which successive approximations of a desired response are reinforced.

Who of the following used "puzzle boxes" to learn more about instrumental conditioning?

Which of the following is an example of negative punishment?

Summarize the key findings from Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment.

The "gambling reinforcement schedule" is the same as a ________ schedule.

Of the following, ________ would serve as a primary reinforcer for most people.

In the process of shaping, behaviors are ordered in terms of increasing similarity to the desired response. These behaviors are called _____________.

The tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus is called _____________.

Are classical and operant conditioning fundamentally the same? Summarize the major arguments for and against the two forms of conditioning being the same.

The first time José sees a cat, his mother tells him, "That's a cat. Can you say cat?" He repeats the word gleefully, and his mother praises him. The next day, he is watching a cartoon and sees a tiger on the television. He points at the tiger and says, "Cat!" This is an example of ____________.