Exam 7: Exstintion: Learning and Conditioning

Iris learns a positive response to the word Thanksgiving because of its association with lots of good food and visits from favorite relatives.This would be an example of:

Having one's hair lightly stroked would be a primary reinforcer.

If you want a response to persist after it has been learned,you should reinforce it continuously,not intermittently.

Behavior modification has been effective in training brain-damaged patients to control inappropriate behaviors.

Sometimes a person learns to respond to a stimulus only when a discriminative stimulus is present.What does the discriminative stimulus signal? Illustrate the ways in which human behavior is controlled by verbal discriminative stimuli. Illustrate the ways in which human behavior is controlled by nonverbal discriminative stimuli. What role does this type of learning play in socialization?

As the activities director of a nursing home,Betty wants to help the residents become more independent and to make many of their own daily decisions.Create an example describing how Betty could use positive reinforcement in order to strengthen the independence of the residents.

The conditioned stimulus allows an organism to prepare for an event that is about to happen.

Albert Bandura and his colleagues had nursery school children watch a short film of two men,Rocky and Johnny,playing with toys.What did the researchers learn about observational learning through this study?

Which of the following would NOT result in classical conditioning?

________________ reinforcement occurs when you take a pill to eliminate pain.

During half time at his high school's homecoming game,Rory has to go to the bathroom. The words Women and Men act as _______________ for entering one door or the other.

Most psychologists believe that punishment is the most effective way to eliminate unwanted behaviors.

Higher-order conditioning involves using an already established _______________ to establish a new conditioned stimulus.

Higher-order conditioning may contribute to the formation of:

Intermittent reinforcement schedules vary in how the reinforcers are delivered.Describe the four major types of intermittent schedules.

In classical conditioning,when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus,_______________ occurs.

Humans are biologically primed to associate sickness with tastes more readily than with sights.

In the 1930s,behaviorist Edward Tolman committed virtual heresy among his colleagues by noting that:

Aversion to taste may occur after only one pairing of the food with illness.

According to John B.Watson,the founder of American behaviorism,you learn to love someone else: