Exam 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US

________ is credited with discovering classical conditioning.

Behavior modification is an operant technique that helps change behavior through the use of ________ reinforcers.

"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________________.

Spontaneous recovery immediately follows which of the following?

A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on ______.

When Joe thinks about his sorely missed girlfriend he drinks alcohol, which helps dull his feelings. This best illustrates ________.

A school issues tokens to the children for good behavior. This issue of a token is an example of ___________.

In operant conditioning, _____________ is necessary to create the association between the stimulus and the repetition of a voluntary response.

Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than to the original, natural stimulus is called ________________.

A child is wetting his or her bed. According to our textbook, punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behavior. You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident. This is because negative punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviors.

The researcher responsible for discovering classical conditioning was _____________.

For every 5 times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This best illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

Discuss and give an example of each of the four schedules of partial reinforcement.

Learning that occurs when repeated exposure to a stimulus decreases an organism's responsiveness to the stimulus is called ________.

Who is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?

What is the underlying commonality for all primary reinforcers? Give two examples of a primary reinforcer.

Observational learning theory's foremost proponent is ______.

________ learning explains Tolman and Honzik's findings that unreinforced rats that eventually were reinforced performed just as well if not better than regularly reinforced rats.

Under what circumstances will a reinforcer make the target response more likely to occur again?

The neurotransmitter that seems to have the highest relationship to the principles of operant conditioning is GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid.