Exam 7: Basic Principles of Learning

Positive reinforcement,negative reinforcement,and punishment are terms associated with operant conditioning.

There are two vending machines in your dorm.The one on the left always works;the one on the right is usually broken.You put your money only in the machine on the left.This is

In classical conditioning,learning will occur more quickly when the UCS precedes the CS.

The idea of delay of reinforcement suggests that the ______ delay of reinforcement,the ______ the learning.

An experimental group of rats was not reinforced for solving a maze problem for a few days.Several days later,they were reinforced and subsequently showed similar scores in the maze as rats that had been reinforced from the beginning of the experiment.Tolman referred to this phenomenon as _______ learning.

When an instructor commends students for asking tentative questions in order to encourage the asking of more detailed and technical questions,the instructor is using

When counterconditioning is used,a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus that is _______ the conditioned response.

Increase behavior is to decrease behavior as

J.J.became extremely nauseous two hours after eating a fried corn dog at the county fair.Through this experience she learned to dislike corn dogs.What was the UCS in this example?

The origins of unusual sexual fetishes may best be explained by

Stimulus discrimination occurs in classical conditioning but not in operant conditioning.

Suppose that your cat has learned to jump up on your lap during dinner to get food.In order to stop this,you do not give food to your cat when he jumps onto your lap.This is an example of

Which of the following is an example of a primary reinforcer?

John's toaster is malfunctioning.Sometimes his toast is ready in ten seconds.Sometimes he must wait thirty seconds.At times,it can even take several minutes before the toast is done.The toaster has John on a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

Escape conditioning is a type of positive reinforcement.

In Pavlov's experiments,which condition of association produced the best results?

You fear that your date may not be receptive to your idea of seeing a new play,so you do not even mention it.This is an example of

According to the ______,responses that have been continuously reinforced are extinguished more quickly than responses that were reinforced on variable interval or variable ratio schedules.

It is ______ conditioning that studies the relationship between a response and the resulting consequence.

The study of "Little Albert" is a famous example of the study of learned that was conducted by