Exam 5: Learning

Little Albert (Watson, 1920) learned through classical conditioning to fear ________.

For every 5 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?

Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ________.

Nagging someone to do something until they do it is an example of ________.

In the classic study of fear conditioning in a human infant (the "Albert" experiment), what was the CS?

When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a ________ schedule.

An example of a behavior that is learned through operant conditioning is ________.

A key element in the use of biofeedback is teaching a person to induce a state of ________ to help gain control over biological functions.

Michael grows up in a home where his father is generally unloving toward his mother. He observes his father yell and degrade his mother, and he notices that his mother never resists this treatment. Based on the work of Bandura, what might we predict about Michael's own relationships when he is older?

Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than to the original, natural stimulus is called ________.

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a ________.

Which of the following statements about punishment is NOT true?

In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll, the children in the group who saw the model punished did not imitate the model at first. They would only imitate the model if given a reward for doing so. The fact that these children had obviously learned the behavior without actually performing it is an example of ________.

When someone uses punishment to change a behavior, the behavior is likely to ________.

A monthly paycheck BEST represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

The mental storing of an entire image of an area, such as a maze or floor plan of a building is called________.

A child is praised for using his fork instead of his fingers to eat some spaghetti. This is an example of ________ reinforcement.

Which type of learning occurs when we observe how other people act?

As she walked through her neighborhood, Jodie, a 6 year old girl, frequently saw a large brown dog. She repeatedly walked to the dog to pet it, but as her hand approached the animal, it barked and bit her. The bite was painful and caused her to cry. Now Jodie cries when she sees dogs of any color or size. Jodie's crying when she sees dogs is the:

In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is TRUE?