Exam 5: Learning

A child is wetting his or her bed. According to our textbook, punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behavior. You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident. This is because punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviors.

While watching the evening news, you see a story about domestic abuse and wonder, "Why would anyone stay in a relationship where they are being abused?" According to Seligman, one factor that may contribute to victims staying in abusive relationships is ________.

Pavlov's model of classical conditioning was based on the idea that the conditioned stimulus, through its association close in time with the unconditioned stimulus, came to activate the same place in the animal's brain that was originally activated by the unconditioned stimulus. This was known as ________.

Instinctive or involuntary behavior would probably be BEST modified by ________.

Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate at a metronome sound that was paired with a meat stimulus. After the CS-UCS connection was strongly established, Pavlov then presented the dog with several flashes of a light followed by the metronome sound. After a few days, when the light flashes were presented by themselves, the dog salivated. This is an example of ________.

In the "Little Albert" study, the fear-producing stimulus used as a UCS was the ________.

Insight is a concept associated with ________ learning theory.

The "aha!" experience is known as ________.

Which of the following is an example of classical conditioning?

For every five times that you go to the gym each week, you reward yourself with a treat. This BEST illustrates which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

Bob has learned that he can usually get what he wants from his parents if he keeps whining for something. One day Bob starts whining in the toy store because he wants a GI Joe action figure. His father refuses to give it to him and ignores his whining. What will happen?

Imagine that you try to condition someone so that a particular sound elicits a literal "knee jerk response." Which of the following is accurate?

Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20. What schedule of reinforcement is being used?

Which of the following criteria helps to increase the effectiveness of punishment?

Classical is to ________ as operant is to ________.

The "law of effect" was first proposed in the modern scientific community by:

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

The fact that dopamine amplifies some signals and mutes others in the ________ suggests that it is part of the process of reinforcement in the brain.

Which learning theorist is responsible for the discovery of conditioned taste aversions based on his work giving sweetened liquid to rats and then inducing nausea in them?

A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on ________.