Exam 6: Learning

You want your dog to learn to lie down when you are about to give him a treat.If you first reinforce his behavior when he sits,then when he sits and stays,then when he lies down,you are using the technique called:

Which of the following does NOT reflect the role of classical conditioning in drug addiction?

If getting $1 for every correct answer on this test makes you study harder,being given $1 would be a form of:

What is the fundamental characteristic of operant conditioning that sets it apart from classical conditioning?

The term ________ is used to describe intermittent reinforcements.

The best definition of learning is that learning:

According to Watson's famous quote regarding the rearing of children,if given a dozen infants and control of their world,he could:

Hummingbirds feed on a ________ schedule because they revisit each flower at specific times of the day to get the sweetest nectar.

What is the name commonly applied to the type of learning that Skinner studied?

Evidence for observational learning in nonhumans is present in all of the following examples EXCEPT:

The key to whether presentations of a stimulus will lead to sensitization or habituation is whether the stimulus is:

Negative reinforcement and negative punishment are similar in that both:

When humans feel threatened,they tend to freeze first and then run.This reaction is an example of:

For what area of research did Ivan Pavlov receive the Nobel Prize?

Of the following,which schedule of reinforcement leads to fastest extinction?

Positive reinforcement and positive punishment are similar in that both:

What type of learned response occurs when a formerly neutral object begins to elicit a reflexive (or highly similar)response after it has been paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits that response?

In Pavlov's experiments,what was the conditioned response?

You are conducting an informal study in which,for a month,you play a particular song just before you serve dinner to your best friend.Eventually,you play just the song to see what will happen,and your friend begins to salivate and says that she has hunger pains.In this scenario,what is the unconditioned response?

The imitation of observed behavior is known as: