Exam 7: Section 4: Learning

Activity in the hippocampus underlies habituation.

The unconditioned stimulus in the Little Albert study initially was a white rat.

The hippocampus is not necessary for implicit learning to occur.

Albert Bandura conducted the Bobo doll experiment investigating observational learning.

In negative punishment, an unpleasant stimulus is removed upon the occurrence of the target behavior.

Secondary reinforcers acquire their value through classical conditioning.

Taste aversions can develop with just one taste-sickness pairing.

Delay between the behavior and the consequence affects the processes of reinforcement and punishment differently.

For most people, money is a powerful primary reinforcer.

Tolman proposed the three-term contingency.

The presence of a strong compensatory response as a heroin user injects makes overdose from that injection more likely.

Implicit learning occurs outside of conscious awareness.

The enculturation hypothesis suggests that each species fosters a unique culture that facilitates observational learning within that species.

An experienced heroin user will have a higher risk of overdose if he injects the drug in an unfamiliar environment.

Extinction of an operant response involves no longer providing reinforcement for that response.

An explicit knowledge of grammatical rules is necessary to identify correct words in an artificial grammar task.

After being conditioned to fear white rats, Albert also was afraid of white rabbits, illustrating the effects of stimulus discrimination.

The more often a person eats a particular food, the more likely it is that she ultimately will form a taste aversion to it.

In second-order conditioning, a neutral stimulus becomes a US when it is repeatedly paired with a previously established CS.

Cramming is a form of massed practice.