Exam 5: Learning

Learning that occurs but is not immediately reflected in a behavior change is called ________.

It is even possible to become classically conditioned by simply watching someone else respond to a stimulus in a process called ________.

Learning is a process by which experience results in ________.

The fact that you now tend to prefer blondes because your last love interest had blonde hair BEST illustrates ________.

Paul is coming down with the flu, but he eats spaghetti anyway and subsequently becomes violently ill. A month later he sees that spaghetti is being served in the dining hall and is overcome by nausea. What type of learning is illustrated by this episode?

Which of the following would be most appropriate for the use of biofeedback procedures?

Which of the following statements about learning is NOT true?

Reacting to a stimulus that is similar to the one you have learned to react to is called ________.

Sue noticed that whenever she opened the door to the pantry, her dog would come into the kitchen and act hungry, by drooling and whining. She thought that because the dog food was stored in the pantry, the sound of the door had become a(n) ________.

Once conditioning has been acquired, presenting just the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus produces:

A researcher places dogs in a cage with metal bars on the floor. The dogs are randomly given electric shocks and can do nothing to prevent them or stop them. Later, the same dogs are placed in a cage where they can escape the shocks by jumping over a low hurdle. When the shocks are given, the dogs do not even try to escape. They just sit and cower. This is an example of ________.

Classical is to ________ as operant is to ________.

A child who calls all four-legged animals "dogs" is exhibiting ________.

During your very first visit to your campus, you probably needed a map to get around efficiently. However, a little while later you no longer needed the map, because ________ had occurred.

Who is BEST known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?

A pigeon learns to peck only at a red disk. It will not peck at an identical disk of any other color. This illustrates the concept of ________.

"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________.

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, the ringing of the bell was the ________.

Who was Little Albert?

Learning that takes place without actual performance (a kind of latent learning) is called ________.