Exam 6: Learning

A psychologist is interested in the process of thinking about one's own thoughts and feelings. She asks her subjects to talk about these processes to better understand how people think, learn, and feel. This psychologist most likely uses which technique as part of her research?

Which of the following would be an example of a learned behaviour, NOT instinctive behaviour?

To which food would you be more likely to show conditioned taste aversion?

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

What type of learning occurs when one's behaviour is modified simply through exposure to others performing a behaviour?

What psychological principle did Pavlov's experiments teach us?

When slight differences in the form of conditioned stimuli still produce the same conditioned response, the learning phenomenon of ____________ is occurring.

What causes extinction?

What type of reward schedule extinguishes the fastest?

According to Watson, children are born as a blank slate, or tabula rasa. Which of the following characteristics should a child then possess from birth?

What is an unconditioned stimulus?

Long-term potentiation (LTP) has also been demonstrated to function outside the hippocampus. What brain structure uses LTP for fear-specific learning?

If you wish to stop being lazy and you want to exercise more often, what would be a good strategy for making this change?

A term sometimes used to represent the storage of learning by the neural systems of the brain is:

What is the proper order of events that need to take place in order for classical conditioning to occur?

How might behavioural techniques help treat phobias?

How does the transmission of cultural memes relate to learning?

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

Money is NOT a primary reinforcer because:

Which of the following is an important predictor in determining how potentially addictive a drug may be?