Exam 7: Learning and Conditioning

If a dog salivates when it sees a green light or a yellow light,it is exhibiting ________.

Learning is a process by which experience results in:

Cognitive learning involves:

John's heart has been conditioned to beat rapidly whenever he smells Windsong perfume on a woman.However,John's heart also races when he smells Chanel #5 and other perfumes.This illustrates:

An experimenter finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he sees a picture of a nude female.The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then presents such a picture.The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone.In this situation the UNCONDITIONED response is the _______.

A camp leader repeatedly hugs a camper after she helps her friend.Each time,the camper is embarrassed and shies away from future acts of assistance.In the example,"Hugging the camper" is _______.

As she walked through her neighborhood,Jodie,a 6-year-old girl,frequently saw a large brown dog.She repeatedly walked to the do to pet it,but as her hand approached the animal,it barked and bit her.The bite was painful and caused her to cry.Now Jodie cries when she sees dogs of any color or size.Jode's crying when she sees dogs is the ________.

New learning that works in the opposite direction from the original learning results in ________.

On a variable-interval schedule,reinforcement is given for the __________.

Animals exposed to unavoidable,uncontrollable aversive stimulation exhibit _______ when later trained in an avoidance procedure.

A key to social learning theory is ____________ .

We associate the name of ___________ most closely with classical conditioning.

Repeatedly presenting a CS by itself will result in ________.

In the experiment with Little Albert,the conditioned stimulus was _______.

Many individuals decide that they feel hungry and eat lunch when they see both hands of the clock on the 12,indicating that it is noontime.This may occur regardless of how recently they ate breakfast.In this example,the conditioned response is:

Stimulus generalization occurs:

If a POSITIVE REINFORCER is added after a behavior and the behavior is strengthened/increased,the process used is called:

An experiment finds that a certain male subject always has an increased heartbeat when he hears a certain piece of music.The experimenter sounds a buzzer and then plays the piece of music.The experimenter repeats this procedure until the man responds with an increased heartbeat to the sound of the buzzer alone.In this situation the UNCONDITIONED response is the:

A procedure used to teach a whole behavior by first training its parts is called:

Negative reinforcement is negative in the sense that: