Exam 4: Learning

Biofeedback training is an application that uses the principles of operant conditioning.

Which of the following is an example of punishment by removal?

Which of the following statements about positive reinforcers is accurate?

Classical conditioning was discovered by:

When Casey opens the closet door to get some dog food,her dog salivates.What is the conditioned stimulus in this example?

The schedule of reinforcement that yields the slowest increase in a behavior and the fastest extinction of the behavior when the schedule is stopped is ________.

When you were first learning to make your bed,your parents told you that you did a good job when you got the bedspread pulled up,even though the bed was still a little messy.For the next week they showed you how to be a little neater each time you made the bed.What operant conditioning procedure did your parents use?

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

The abbreviation UCR stands for ____________.

Who was Little Albert?

For every 10 boxes of cookies that Lisa sells,her scout troop gets a dollar.Lisa is being reinforced on which type of schedule?

Professor Rochelle told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door.But if her door was open,it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time.Professor Rochelle's door being open was a ___________ for ____________.

Rachel has found that when she opens the cupboard door to get the cat food,the cats come running to the kitchen.Rachel knows that this is classical conditioning and that the unconditioned stimulus is the __________.

Who formulated the law of effect?

On a variable-interval schedule,reinforcement is given _________ .

The opposite of stimulus generalization is:

Billy throws rocks.Each time he throws a rock,he is immediately spanked.Spanking is a ________.

When one conditioned stimulus is used to create another,this is called ______.

Jared's father is ill and cannot prepare his famous chili recipe,which Jared has watched his father make many times.When his father tells Jared that he must cook the chili,he panics at first.But then Jared finds that he knows how to put the recipe together anyway.His ability to prepare the recipe is an example of ______.

Ivan Pavlov is most closely associated with __________.