Exam 6: E: Learning

The four processes involved in ___________include attention to the act or behaviour,memory for it,the ability to reproduce it,and the motivation to do so.

Learning that involves processes such as reading,listening,and test taking is called___________ learning.

When researchers want to use operant conditioning to train animals to perform complicated behaviours,they must use a step-by-step procedure called___________ .

One of the difficulties in demonstrating that exposure to media violence increases aggression is that fact that much of the research on media violence and aggression relies on___________ designs,which do not allow researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships.

One reason why drug users increase their dosages over time is a classical conditioning phenomenon known as___________ ,which involves physiological responses in preparation for drug administration.

John Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrated that people suffering from___________ may have been accidentally conditioned to have emotional responses to specific stimuli or situations.

When one of Pavlov's dogs salivated in response to the food,the salivation was an) __________but when the dogs salivated to the sound of a metronome, the salivation should be called an) ___________

A slot machine is a classic example of an)___________schuedule of reinforcement because players never know how many times they will have to pull the arm before they win again.

One of the primary mechanisms that allows observational learning to take place is___________ ,the recreating of a motor behaviour or expression,often to accomplish a specific goal.