Exam 4: Learning

The Brelands tried to condition pigs to work in show business.This turned out not to be easy as the pigs tended to make instinctual responses as compared to the learned responses.

Reacting to a stimulus that is similar to the one which you have learned to react is called _______.

Which is the most important characteristic of a food that is linked to a conditioned taste aversion for birds?

Skinner was to rats as Thorndike was to ________________.

Which of the following is NOT a negative reinforcer?

Which of the following is an example of punishment?

Research suggests that delayed reinforcement ____________ .

Michael grows up in a home where his father is generally unloving toward his mother.He observes his father yell and degrade his mother,and he notices that his mother never resists this treatment.Based on the work of Bandura,what might we predict about Michael's own relationships when he is older?

Many individuals decide that they feel hungry and eat lunch when they see both hands of the clock on the 12,indicating that it is noontime.This may occur regardless of how recently they ate breakfast.In this example,the conditioned response is:

Generally,it is best to present the CS followed immediately by the US for conditioning to occur.One exception to this rule is illustrated by:

After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of white rats,Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit,cotton wool,and a Santa Claus mask.He was studying whether or not _____________ had occurred.

The person associated with the law of effect is _______.

An important discovery stemming from Watson and Rayner's experiment was that:

As she walked through her neighborhood,Jodie,a 6 year old girl,frequently saw a large brown dog.She repeatedly walked to the dog to pet it,but as her hand approached the animal,it barked and bit her.The bite was painful and caused her to cry.Now Jodie cries when she sees dogs of any color or size.The sight of dogs is the:

Reacting to a stimulus that is similar to the one you have learned to react to is called ___________ .

You move out of your dorm into an apartment shared with three other people.Unlike the shower in the dorm,this shower does not turn cold when the toilet is flushed,and you eventually stop cringing every time you hear the flushing sound.What has occurred?

A pigeon learns to peck only at a red disk.It will not peck at an identical disk of any other color.This illustrates the concept of _______.

New learning that works in the opposite direction from the original learning results in ________ .

The process by which experience results in a relatively permanent change in what one is capable of doing is called:

A young boy is watching TV.In one show he sees a bully steal a lunch from another child.The bully then enjoys eating the other child's lunch.Because this boy feels that his mother makes him a rather skimpy lunch and he is always hungry at school,he starts stealing other kids' lunches.According to Bandura's theory of observational learning,his hunger at lunchtime was most related to which factor?