Exam 7: Basic Principles of Learning

A major league baseball pitcher changes his arm strength by taking steroids,which in turn changes his pitching.Is this change in pitching due to learning?

It is easier to classically condition a fear of ______ compared to a fear of ______.

In Pavlov's classic studies with dogs and digestion,what was the response that Pavlov measured?

The termination of a behavior is known as ______ conditioning,while preventing the behavior from occurring all along is known as ______ conditioning.

Research on operant conditioning suggests that the longer a reward for a good deed is delayed,the

Researchers have demonstrated that learning can occur in the absence of a reinforcer.This learning is demonstrated at a later time.The name for this type of learning is

Maria,who is fearful of mice,took a job as a lab assistant and found she was required to handle mice.Gradually,Maria's fear of mice diminished as she continued to handle mice.Now Maria is interested in having mice as pets.How was Maria's fear removed?

When learning by watching others,we tend to learn more from a model we see being reinforced.Learning by watching someone else's reinforcement is called ______ reinforcement.

You trained a rat to press a lever using positive reinforcement.When the behavior was well-learned you stopped giving the reward for the lever-pressing behavior.Most likely,you next discovered that the

Primary reinforcer is to secondary reinforcer as

When the pairing of a food and nausea occur once yet lead to the avoidance of that food,this describes the classical conditioning process of

Using Pavlov's idea of learning through association,a/n ______ stimulus comes to elicit a response over time.

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

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

In an experiment,participants are to learn a classically conditioned response.Which of the following will occur on the first learning trial?

Helen used to love bananas.Then one day she ate nine bananas and got sick.Over the next 45 years,Helen never ate another banana.Helen's behavioral change concerning bananas is called a

The opposite of stimulus discrimination is stimulus generalization.

When we see someone else get rewarded for a particular behavior,what is likely to occur?