Exam 4: A: Learning

The researcher responsible for discovering classical conditioning was _____________.

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his shee

You walk up to a soda machine and put in a dollar,and are rewarded with a bottle of root beer.When you put in another dollar,you get another soda.Assuming that the machine does not run out of root beer,which kind of reinforcement schedule does this machine operate on?

A child is punished and temporarily stops his or her well-established bad behavior.However,the child soon goes back to acting badly.This is probably because _________.

It is even possible to become classically conditioned by simply watching someone else respond to a stimulus in a process called ________________.

Which of the following statements about learning is NOT true?

Your parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti.Later,the parakeet gets ill.What would the research on biological preparedness predict?

What is likely to happen to rats that drink a saccharin solution and are then shocked?

The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is called __________________.

"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 ________________.

Which of the following statements is true about behavior modification?

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

According to Rescorla's theory,the CS must _______ the UCS or conditioning does not occur.

Conditioned taste aversions are an example of something called __________.

In operant conditioning,_____________ is necessary to create the association between the stimulus and the repetition of a voluntary response.

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

Which of the following statements is true regarding punishment?

A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus that ______________.

After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats,Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit,cotton wool,and a Santa Claus mask.He was studying whether or not _____________________ had occurred.

In an experiment,two groups of dogs are given shocks to their feet.One group is able to escape the shocks by jumping over a barrier.The second group is harnessed and cannot escape.After several trials,both groups are put in situations where they CAN escape.The first group escapes the shocks but the second group just sits and whines,refusing to attempt to escape.The response of the second group is due to ______.