Exam 5: Section 2: Learning

Macaque monkeys are capable of learning a cognitive rule for ordering lists of photographs simply from watching another macaque successfully complete the task. This is an example of:

When Rani was having problems at school, she often talked things over with her grandfather. Her grandfather, who always smoked a pipe, was warm, reassuring, and always supportive. Years later, Rani still finds the smell of pipe tobacco soothing. In classical conditioning terms, Rani's fondness for the smell of pipe tobacco may be described as a(n):

Your friend Madison became very ill a few hours after eating the fried chicken special in the college cafeteria. Now Madison feels queasy whenever she smells fried chicken. Having read the learning chapter in your psychology class, you explain that:

The idea that an animal's natural behavior patterns did not matter and had little or no effect on the effectiveness of operant conditioning principles was challenged by research conducted by:

The different schedules of reinforcement produce different patterns of responding. In the graph shown, which pattern represents the highest rate of responding?

After Peter used bad language to get a laugh from the other children, his teacher sent him to a quiet area, free of distractions and social contact, for a short time period. In the In Focus box: Changing the Behavior of Others, this strategy is called:

Television and radio serial dramas that are used to promote social change and healthy behaviors around the world have been developed based upon research by:

To avoid losing any data on his computer, Tom consistently backs up his computer data to a second hard drive. Using operant conditioning terms, Tom's behavior of backing up his data to a second hard drive is an example of:

The process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses is called:

Josh, a graduate student in psychology, wishes to use classical conditioning to condition a learned taste aversion in pigeons. Given what you read about biological preparedness in the text, which of the following would be the easiest stimulus to use as his conditioned stimulus?

Your textbook described a classic experiment by Robert Rescorla that involved two groups of rats. One group of rats heard a tone just before each of 20 shocks. The second group of rats experienced the same 20 tone-shock pairings, but also experienced an additional 20 shocks that were not paired with a tone. How did the two groups differ?

It was _____ who made the following claim: ''Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select.''

John B. Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of:

Behavior that is conditioned with _____ reinforcement is _____ resistant to extinction.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Roger was wearing green underwear when he aced his calculus test at the beginning of the semester. Ever since, Roger always wears green underwear on test days in his college classes. In operant conditioning terms, Roger's superstitious behavior is the result of:

According to psychologist Albert Bandura, four processes are involved in observational learning. Which of the following is NOT one of those processes?

What was the unconditioned response (UCR) in Watson and Rayner's famous ''Little Albert'' study?

After buying an electric grass trimmer, Richard changed into his shorts and went out in his bare feet to trim the grass. When he moved the trimmer too close to his leg, the rotating line gashed and cut his ankle. Richard no longer wears shorts or goes barefoot when he uses the grass trimmer. Richard's behavior of dressing inappropriately for gardening has been changed as a result of:

As studies with rats have shown, taste aversions can be produced when the interval between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is:

A number of factors increase the probability that a behavior will be imitated. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors?