Exam 6: Procedural Learning II: Habits and Instrumental Learning

When an animal must operate on their environment before getting a reward it is an example of the ________ developed by _________.

Which schedule best reflects the payoff on a slot machine?

Cued-recall in a water maze task is an example of _________ learning.

Denise applies the principles of classical and operant conditioning when she tries to decrease problematic behaviors in children diagnosed with autism. She might be in the area of ____________.

One main way that instrumental conditioning differs from classical conditioning is that in instrumental conditioning __________.

When studying turning patterns in rats during a maze task, if a rat is rewarded for turning one way consistently in a t-maze it is called a _________ condition.

In a water maze task, when the platform is submerged below the water line it is called _________.

When Bobby gets caught by the teacher for chewing gum he has to stand in the corner. If his gum chewing behavior has increased in the last month, then standing in the corner has become a __________.

According to Anderson, the first stage in the development of a motor skill is the _______.

Instrumental learning is another example of ____________ learning

The Toronto Blue Jays haven't won a game in over a month and some of the players get depressed because they believe they are on a losing streak. This depression can be explained through _________.

One form of behavior modification uses token economies to reward desirable actions.

Bears are taught to climb a ladder in a circus act through _________.

The _________ sorts and associates somatosensory representations with the appropriate motor representations.

If Hunter is being rewarded periodically for doing the dishes, he is being subjected to _________.

If a parent wanted to extinguish a behavior and used punishment only sometimes when a child did the unwanted behavior, the result will probably be _______.

The chamber typically used to study operant conditioning is called a(n) _______________.

How are cued learning and place learning two different approaches for studying instrumental learning in a water maze task?

When a pig in the zoo was trained to put a coin in a bank he often tried to flip it in with its nose. One explanation for this is the concept of ____________.

Martin Seligman and his colleagues found that animals that suffered inescapable shocks in a training phase did not attempt to avoid a shock in the testing phase in an experiment. He coined this behavior ____________.