Exam 7: Exstintion: Learning and Conditioning

Describe the social learning theories that were in full bloom in the 1960s and the 1970s.What did Albert Bandura and his colleagues illustrate through their studies in which children watched films of an adult kicking,punching,and hammering on a big rubber doll?

Kyla wants to make sure that her dog Axel does not beg for food from the table.Every time that Axel begs,Kyla says,"No," in a sharp,scolding voice and she never gives in.Kyla is using:

Counterconditioning is a process in which a conditioned stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits a response that is incompatible with an unwanted conditioned response.

_______________ helps explain why people often get attached to "lucky" hats,charms,and rituals.

In a recent study cited in your text,people who had just attended a violent movie were likely to take ___________to respond to a young women struggling to pick up her crutches than those who watched a non-violent movie.

In a classic experiment,Edward Tolman and C.H.Honzik placed three groups of rats in mazes and observed the behavior of the rats daily for more than two weeks.What were the three conditions in this experiment? What did the results suggest?

When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.The salivation was a(n):

When a placebo is effective in reducing pain,then the placebo has become a conditioned stimulus.

John B.Watson believed that classical conditioning could affect:

Pigeons have been taught to discriminate between paintings by two artists.

In a study mentioned in the text involving violent media,all of the following affected how a person responded to someone in distress EXCEPT:

Pavlov was,at first,annoyed when his research on the digestion of a dog was confounded by the dog's salivation before the meat powder was placed on its tongue.Describe his initial reactions and thoughts to this unexpected behavior of the dog.

In order to modify someone's behavior,one should:

Which of the following is a primary reinforcer?

The difference between a reinforcer and a punisher is that:

Before studying conditioning,Ivan Pavlov studied:

Social-cognitive learning theorists believe that omitting mental processes from explanations of human learning is essential in maintaining a rigorous scientific approach.

You clean your room so your mother will stop nagging you.Your mother used _______________ to get you to clean your room.

The classical-conditioning term for a response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus is:

Suppose that your cat has been classically conditioned to the sound of an electric can opener when you open a can of cat food.How would the cat respond when there is a great sale on dry cat food and for one month you don't use the can opener?