Exam 7: Section 2: Learning

Chimpanzees raised in the wild watched a human model using a tool either efficiently or inefficiently and then themselves interacted with the tool. Which statement is true?

Your friend's mother was always baking ginger-flavored cookies whenever you were at their house. You loved those cookies, and would eat several each time you visited. One day, you noticed that you started to salivate as you walked up the front steps to the house, before you smelled the cookies. The reason for this is that the house has become a(n):

Every time a rat presses a lever, it receives a small injection of cocaine. That rat begins pressing the lever more and more, indicating that cocaine is a:

A general process in which the presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus is termed:

Most animals can adjust to slight variations in the conditioned stimulus, an adaptation known as:

Which statement about implicit learning is true?

When a neutral stimulus evokes a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally evokes a response, the result is an example of which phenomena?

Tammy ate raw oysters for the first time and, four hours later, became extremely sick to her stomach. Now, the smell of oysters makes her stomach queasy. What is the CS?

Imagine that your girlfriend loves zydeco music. Eventually, your girlfriend dumps you, walking out of your apartment in the middle of a song. Your stomach tightens, and you are sad and angry. A few weeks later, you happen to hear zydeco music in a friend's car. Assuming classical conditioning occurred, what should happen when you hear the zydeco?

A(n) _____ schedule is based on the time between reinforcements.

A pigeon is reinforced for pecking a key whenever a particular tone is sounded but never reinforced if the tone is absent. Pigeons discriminating these conditions will:

A hungry monkey's lever pressing behavior is reinforced with a banana-flavored treat. Which would produce the MOST dopamine activity?

A general process in which the repeated presentation of a stimulus leads to a gradual decrease in responding is termed:

Tammy ate raw oysters for the first time and, four hours later, became extremely sick to her stomach. Now, the smell of oysters makes her stomach queasy. What is the US?

Rats that traverse a maze for 10 consecutive days with no reward show no evidence of learning the maze. When reinforcement is provided beginning on the 11th day, these rats will:

What principle describes why the taste and smell stimuli that produce food aversions in rats does NOT work with most species of birds?

A student closes her textbook, convinced that she has mastered the material. Her conclusion is an example of a(n):

Which item is a secondary reinforcer?

A parent spanked a child for misbehaving, and the misbehavior stopped. By definition, the spanking served as a _____ for the misbehavior.

Observational learning is: