Exam 6: Learning

In 1898,a man named Edward Thorndike suggested that behaviors that lead to rewarded outcomes will be repeated.What is the name of Thorndike's theory?

Gambling on a slot machine involves rewards on a ________ schedule.

The ability to respond with an appropriate conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus and with no response to a very similar yet substantially different stimulus is known as:

What observation by Pavlov led to the development of classical conditioning as a model of learning?

What is the main difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning?

Conditioned food aversions are especially likely to occur when the stimulus is a(n):

Imagine you are trapped in a cage.Every time you press a button,you get a drink of water.Every time you pull on a string,you get shocked.Soon,you understand that you should press the button,but leave the string alone.This example follows the theory of:

Navario is refusing to do his homework because he wants to go out to play.His mother tells him he is not allowed to play until his homework is finished.His mother is using:

Which of the following would NOT be an example of biological constraints rather than learned behavior?

The process by which an environmental stimulus and a behavior are connected is known as:

Who believed that conditioning processes were the basis for how animals learned to adapt to their environments?

Taking away a child's video games for bad behavior is a form of:

The psychologist Shepard Siegel recommends that treatment for drug addiction involves exposing addicts to certain drug cues,such that subsequent exposures no longer produce drug cravings.What behavioral process is implicated in this recommendation?

Tolman's work on learning without reinforcement resulted in the theory of:

The neurotransmitter that is most important for reinforcement learning is:

Why would a dopamine blocker be prescribed to someone with Tourette's syndrome or other involuntary behaviors?

The process by which an individual needs increasing amounts of a drug to achieve the same psychological or physical effects is known as:

What causes extinction?

Learning without direct reinforcement is known as:

The first time you pick up your pet hamster it recoils in fear,but after a week of handling,your hamster is not bothered anymore.What change came over your hamster through the simple act of repetitive handling?