Exam 7: Section 2: Learning

Distributed practice is better than massed practice:

A fixed-interval, 60-second schedule delivers a reinforcer:

Not providing a reinforcer every time a response occurs:

Under most circumstances, the cognitive elements of classical conditioning reflect _____ mechanisms that:

Last week, Harry drank too much tequila and this made him vomit. Now, just the smell of tequila makes his stomach a bit queasy. Vomiting is an example of a(n):

A college instructor implements the following attendance policy. All students are given 20 bonus points at the start of the semester. Each absence will result in the loss of 5 bonus points. The instructor hopes this policy will _____ absences.

According to B. F. Skinner, the best way to train a rat to press the bar in the Skinner box is to begin by:

A rat's lever presses occasionally produce food. Across conditions, the food is delivered either immediately after a lever press or after some delay. Which is true?

A reflexive reaction that is reliably elicited by an unconditioned stimulus is called a(n) _____ response.

Playing the hot-or-cold game, where you direct someone to move around the room toward a goal known only to you by telling the person whether he or she is getting warmer or cooler is an example of which behavioral process?

In a series of studies by Delgado and colleagues, participants chose between receiving one dollar or giving their partner three dollars. If given money, the partners could choose to split it with the participants or keep it. Prior to the study, participants read descriptions of their partners that described them as either trustworthy or untrustworthy. Delgado and colleagues found that participants based their decision to give money to their partners largely on:

A conditioned compensatory response is a:

Extinction will proceed most rapidly if behavior previously had been maintained under a(n) _____ schedule of reinforcement.

Which structure is NOT involved in the reward center of the brain?

Sam gets a free pretzel using his Pretzel Smorgasbord card with every 10th pretzel he buys. This arrangement is an example of which type of reinforcement schedule?

Which statement about primary reinforcers is true?

Which item is a secondary reinforcer?

A teenager swears at the dinner table, and as a result, her parents take away her iPod for one week. The teenager is now much less likely to swear at the dinner table, illustrating:

In Pavlov's research, what was the UR?

In his experiment with Little Albert, one of John Watson's goals was to show that: