Exam 4: A: Learning

The abbreviation CR stands for ______________.

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

When the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the UCS (food,in this case),the CR will "die out" in a process called ______________.

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

Under what circumstances will a reinforcer make the target response more likely to occur again?

An operant conditioning technique in which a learner gains conscious control over his or her own biological response is __________________.

In Bandura's study of observational learning,the abbreviation AMIM stands for _____________.

Professor Rochelle told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door.But if her door was open,it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time.Professor Rochelle's door being open was a ___________ for _______________.

The person MOST closely associated with the Law of Effect is ______.

A Congressional hearing is taking place in Washington,DC.The representatives are discussing whether the portrayals of violence on children's TV shows are perhaps contributing to the violence we see in schools today.What psychological process are the representatives probably considering as the reason that TV influences school violence?

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ________.

In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll,the children in the group who saw the model punished did not imitate the model at first.They would only imitate the model if given a reward for doing so.The fact that these children had obviously learned the behavior without actually performing it is an example of ____________.

A reinforcer is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior,while a punisher is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior.

A young boy is watching TV.In one show he sees a bully steal a lunch from another child.The bully then enjoys eating the other child's lunch.Because this boy feels that his mother makes him a rather skimpy lunch and he is always hungry at school,he starts stealing other kids' lunches at school.According to Bandura's theory of observational learning,his hunger at lunchtime most influenced which factor?

Classical conditioning was accidentally discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov while he was studying salivation.

You train your dog,Milo,to salivate at the sound of a bell.Then you ring the bell every five minutes and don't follow the ringing with food for Milo.He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at all when the bell rings.But the next morning,when you ring the bell,Milo salivates! What term is used to explain the reappearance of this response?

In order to get her 2^nd grade students to memorize the poems written on the chalkboard,Mrs.Thyberg gives the students stickers for each poem they can recite from memory.After earning 5 stickers,a student gets to pick a prize out of the goody box.Mrs.Thyberg is using (a)_____________________ to modify the children's behaviors.

Little Albert's acquired fear of a white rat was a classic example of a(n)_____________________ response.

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