Exam 5: Learning

The abbreviation CS stands for _____________.

When partial reinforcement occurs,a response that is reinforced after some,but not all,correct responses ____________.

At the National Zoological Park in Washington,D.C.,a polar bear suffered a broken tooth,and keepers needed a safe way of treating the problem.The bear was rewarded first for sticking its nose through a slot in the cage door,then for allowing a keeper to lift its lip and touch its teeth.Finally,a veterinarian was able to treat the damaged tooth while the bear waited placidly for its familiar reward.This is an example of _______.

The process of presenting the conditioned stimulus alone so often that the learner no longer associates it with the unconditioned stimulus and stops making the conditioned response is called _________.

A research participant hears a tone followed by a puff of air directed toward his eye.Later,he blinks when he hears the tone.Before ending the experiment,what could the researcher do in order to extinguish the blinking to that tone?

The primary explanation for the addictive nature of street drugs lies in their impact on the brain's ________ system.

Albert was a little boy who was shown to be remarkably resistant to having his emotional responses conditioned by Watson.Watson presented Albert with a cute little furry rat and then rang a loud bell.Later,Albert should have become scared of the bell,but this never happened.

Learning to make a reflexive response to a stimulus other than to the original,natural stimulus is called ________________.

When someone uses negative reinforcement to change a behavior the behavior is likely to __________.

Dee Dee taught his dog Bosco to roll over whenever he heard the command "Spin!" After a while Dee Dee got bored with the trick,and allowed Bosco's behavior to extinguish.However,while watching Jeopardy! several months later,Dee Dee got excited by the answer "Clothes in a dryer" and shouted out "What is 'spin?!'" at which point Bosco flipped around like a circus performer.Which principle of classical conditioning does this example illustrate?

A school issues tokens to the children for good behavior.This issue of a token is an example of ___________.

"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence,it will tend to be repeated.If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence,it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________________.

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

Jackson has difficulties transferring the words that he sees on a page to a "sound" in his head.He might be suffering from:

Mary arrives home to find her son washing the dirty dishes left from his party the night before.When she discovers his first-semester grade report on the table and sees that he got straight A's,Mary rewards him by relieving him of the unpleasant task of finishing the dishes.Which operant process does the example illustrate?

Learning is a process by which experience results in __________.

Superstitions are formed primarily as a result of operant conditioning effects.

The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is ______.

What do we call learning that has taken place but is not yet demonstrated?

The overall prevalence for dyslexia in the United States is about ________ percent of the population.