Exam 5: Learning

Olivia is punished for spilling her cereal. Her parents give her a spanking and send her to her room where she cries. Later, her puppy makes a mess on the floor. Olivia kicks her puppy and puts it out in the yard where it whines sadly. Which of the following statements explains her behavior toward the puppy?

Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "Bobo" doll study. The term Bobo refers to ________.

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that ________.

Veronica has a very generous boss who occasionally brings in gift cards for his workers. He does this for no particular reason; it is just a nice way to keep people motivated. Veronica never knows when she is going to get a special bonus from her boss. Veronica's boss is reinforcing his workers according to a ________ schedule.

Harmony notices that her cat salivates as soon as it hears the sound of Harmony opening a can with an electric can opener. In this example, the ________ is the conditioned stimulus.

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

You have a class in which you have a quiz every Friday. Your studying for quizzes is reinforced on what type of schedule?

On a variable-interval schedule, reinforcement is given ________.

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

Skinner was to rats as Thorndike was to ________.

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

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, salivation to the meat was the ________.

________ is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice.

Changes controlled by a genetic blueprint, such as an increase in height or the size of the brain, are examples of ________.

A person is connected to an electroencephalograph, a machine that records the brain's electrical activity. The person is reinforced when his or her pattern of brain waves changes in order to treat a disorder such as epilepsy. This technique is BEST called ________.

Which of the following statements about classical conditioning is true?

An expert on parenting is addressing parents at the local grade school. When the topic of punishment is discussed, what is one outcome of punishment the expert is likely to note for the parents to consider?

When a stimulus is taken away from a person or animal resulting in a decrease in the probability of response, it is known as ________.

Last month, Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs, so he no longer likes chili dogs. Walter has experienced ________.

The current view of why classical conditioning works the way it does, advanced by Rescorla and others, adds the concept of ________ to conditioning theory.