Exam 7: Section 4: Learning

William James conducted the Little Albert study.

It is believed that one function of mirror neurons is to detect intentionality in another's actions.

Stimuli paired with drugs often elicit effects opposite that of the drugs.

Dopamine is secreted in the pleasure centers of the brain.

In Pavlov's work with dogs, animals were not presented food unless they salivated when they heard the tone.

Increased discrimination results in increased generalization.

In operant conditioning, occasionally not delivering a reinforcer when the behavior occurs will extinguish that behavior.

Tolman's views on operant conditioning are similar to Watson's views on classical conditioning.

In Pavlov's work with dogs, the unconditioned stimulus was salivation.

Shaping through approximations is another term for trial-and-error learning.

Acquisition is the phase of classical conditioning in which the US elicits the UR.

Implicit-learning abilities extend into old age and decline more slowly than explicit learning abilities.

Habituation is a type of implicit learning.

In a study on latent learning, Tolman demonstrated that rats who never received a food reward at the end of a maze nevertheless ran it faster and faster each day.

Learning occurs independently of an individual's experience.

According to Skinner, superstitions arise when the response only occasionally causes the occurrence of the reinforcer.

If connections between the amygdala and hypothalamus are severed, the behavioral changes associated with fear conditioning will not occur.

Responding is not required for reinforcement under a fixed interval schedule.

Dopamine-blocking drugs diminish the reinforcing effects of opiate drugs.

Acquisition is the phase of classical conditioning in which the initially neutral CS and US are presented together.