Exam 6: B: Learning

Ken's mouth waters every time he hears the ice-cream truck's familiar song in the distance.One day a slightly different song is heard in the distance and Ken's mouth waters.Ken's behaviour illustrates ____________.

Bill hates to clean up after dinner.One night,he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up.When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen,his wife has cleaned everything up for him.Which of the following statements is most likely true?

According to your textbook,which of the following is true about animals teaching other members of their species?

A child receives one homework pass-a coupon that allows her to skip a homework assignment-for every 10 word problems she completes during class.This is an example of both ___________ reinforcement and a ___________ schedule of reinforcement.

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

Five-year-old Samantha is watching a storm from her window.A huge bolt of lightning is followed by a tremendous thunderclap.Startled,Samantha jumps at the noise.This happens several times.As the storm moves farther away,Samantha jumps at the sight of a lightning bolt but doesn't hear the thunder until after she jumps! In this example,the unconditioned stimulus is the _______________ and the conditioned stimulus is the _______________.

As a child,Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl.As he got older,the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten.Blaine is now in his early twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese.The geese stared at him and he felt slightly fearful,though not as afraid as he had been as a child.Blaine's fear response to the geese in the park is an example of _______________.

A fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement involves giving reinforcement

Negative reinforcement is a stimulus that is__________ and thus __________the probability of a response.

Larry has been using heroin for several years.Normally he injects the drug in his basement,but one night on a vacation he injects the drug in his hotel room.Despite the fact that he uses the same heroin and dose that he normally does,Larry overdoses and dies.What phenomenon is likely responsible?

Which of the following is a stimulus?

Which phenomenon supports the theory that extinction is not a form of forgetting?

A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research involving ________________.

Of the four basic elements of classical conditioning,the one the organism learns to respond to is the _____.

A _____________ reinforcer is any reward that satisfies a basic,motivational need,such a hunger,thirst,or touch.

In operant conditioning,reinforcement is

Extinction in operant conditioning involves _________________.

The tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus is called ______________.

Which of the following is true concerning Tolman and Honzik's classic study of latent learning?

The rewarding property of reinforcing stimuli like food and sex is believed to be related to the activity of which brain structure?