Exam 4: Learning

The learning process studied in the Skinner box is known as:

Wearing sunglasses ALL THE TIME because people tell you they make you look "irresistible" is an example of which of the types of punishment and reinforcement?

A reinforcer is a consequence that ______________ a behavior,while a punisher is a consequence that ___________ a behavior.

Perry works at a job where he is paid by commission.For every car Perry sells,he gets 10% of the profits.Perry is being reinforced on a _______ schedule.

The Law of Effect was proposed by:

Last month Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs,so he no longer likes chili dogs.Walter has experienced ____________.

A conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the paired presentation of the UCS.After time,the subject no longer makes the conditioned response.This fading of the CR is known as habituation.

Unlike other schedules of reinforcement,__________ results in a "scalloped" pattern of responses on a cumulative frequency graph.

In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll,the children in the group who saw the model punished did not imitate the model at first.They would only imitate the model if given a reward for doing so.The fact that these children had obviously learned the behavior without actually performing it is an example of ____________.

To avoid getting a headache,Lory always lets her dog outside when it sits by the door and howls.This is an example of which type of punishment or reinforcement?

When someone uses negative reinforcement to change a behavior the behavior is likely to __________ .

In order to treat a child's attention problems in a classroom,a technique that uses the EEG and video-game-style technology called ___________ has been employed.

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

On a variable-ratio schedule,reinforcement is given ________ .

To teach a tiger to jump through a flaming hoop,the tiger is first reinforced for jumping up on a certain pedestal,then for leaping from that pedestal to another.Next the tiger has to jump through a hoop between the pedestals to get the reward.Finally,the hoop is set afire and the tiger must jump through it to get the reward.This is an example of __________ .

Which of the following criteria helps to increase the effectiveness of punishment?

The process of learning to respond only to a single specific object or event is called _________ .

Learning that occurs but is not immediately reflected in a behavior change is called ___________.

A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ___________and thus ________ the probability of a response.

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