Exam 5: Learning

The concept of latent learning was developed by ______.

Approximately 5% of the world's population has either attention deficit disorder or the related condition of:

Who is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals?

Seligman expanded his theory of learned helplessness to explain __________.

Taste aversions seem to be specific examples of what type of learning?

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

Which two learning processes seem to be opposites?

Insight is a concept associated with _______ learning theory.

Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of the dogs,and they began to salivate.Pavlov's student noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps.The salivation to the sound of the footsteps was a _______.

Reacting to a stimulus that is similar to the one you have learned to react to is called ___________.

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

A stimulus presented to a person or animal that decreases the probability of a particular response is known as __________.

The appearance of learned taste aversions in human beings and other animals present a good example of biological preparedness.

The researcher responsible for discovering the basic principles of classical conditioning was _____________.

Espinoza is conducting a test of a child who suffers from dyslexia.He scans the child's brain while the dyslexic symptoms are occurring,and looks for a ________ of the problem.

According to research conducted by Olds and Milner (1954),rats who had the ________ of their brains stimulated experienced intense sensations of pleasure.

The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred is called ______.

Tina watches as her brother Jerry puts his hand on the hot burner of a stove.As Jerry recoils in pain and horror,Tina has learned a valuable lesson,but without any direct reinforcement and without any direct experience with hot burners.What kind of learning has taken place in Tina?

Different tasks that he has started and they are all currently "in progress." When she asks him when he is going to finish,he is often evasive and makes no commitment because he is already thinking about starting on something new.It is possible that Paul suffers from:

An expert on parenting is addressing parents at the local elementary 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?