Exam 6: Learning

If you were a professor, how would you best get your students to study regularly?

According to Skinner, what consequence is most conducive to learning?

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

Who founded the school of behaviourism?

What is the process whereby the conditioned response is weakened when it is no longer presented with the unconditioned stimulus?

Which of the following is NOT one of the core types of learning?

You use eye drops to keep your contacts moist. At first it was just once in the morning, but now it seems you are using eye drops every hour or your eyes just seem to dry out. This increased need for eye drops can be considered an example of ____________ and may be due to a mild ____________ to eye drops.

Investigations of the infant, Little Albert, who was involved in Watson's fear conditioning experiments, suggest that Little Albert:

Olds and Milner utilized intracranial self-stimulation in rats to investigate:

Katie is afraid of clowns. She has been training herself to relax every time she is about to see a clown, and eventually her fear of clowns subsides. What anti-phobia treatment is this action similar to?

Why was Little Albert not counterconditioned or systematically desensitized for his acquired fear of rats?

One factor that can affect the performance of a behaviour after its acquisition is if that behaviour was observationally learned with:

Imagine you are trapped in a cage. Every time you press a button you get a drink of water and 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:

What does the occurrence of spontaneous recovery tell you about the functional properties of extinction?

What is a Skinner box?

Thorndike's rule that actions resulting in good outcomes will be repeated and bad outcomes will not be repeated is known as the:

The $75 fine for driving too fast resulting in you speeding less is an example of:

According to your text, what characteristics must a punishment have to be effective?

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

When conditioning occurs due to the pairing of a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus (CS), resulting in a CS-CS learned association, this is known as: