Exam 7: Section 2: Learning

Accustomed to the sound of the old can opener, a cat still rushes to her food dish even when she hears the sound of the new can opener for the first time. This demonstrates:

Behavior that an organism produces, which has some impact on the environment, is known as:

Which statement regarding practice testing is FALSE?

Spontaneous recovery demonstrates that:

When your 3-year-old sister threw a tantrum over the candy she wanted, your mother gave it to her so that she would calm down. Unfortunately, your sister's temper tantrums probably have been:

One of the strongest early advocates of a cognitive approach to operant learning was:

A condition in which something is learned but is NOT manifested as a behavioral change until sometime in the future is called:

What is one major flaw of punishment?

Which statement about the observational learning that occurs when participants watched videos of dance moves relative to actually practicing the dance moves is true?

Slot machines pay off on schedules that are determined by the random number generator that controls the play of the machine. For example, on average, the machine might pay off every 100 pulls, but sometimes two pulls are required and sometimes several hundred pulls are required. Slot machines are a real-world example of which schedule of reinforcement?

An experienced user who takes heroin in a new setting has an increased risk of overdose because:

Which reinforcement schedule has the highest rate of response?

Students who do relatively little work until just before an upcoming exam and then engage in a burst of studying are displaying a response pattern similar to the one engendered by which_ schedule of reinforcement?

Nine-month-old Albert cried when a large steel bar was struck with a hammer while he viewed a white rat. In this acquisition phase, the white rat was the:

Laboratory monkeys who had never seen a snake developed a fear response to snakes after watching a video of:

Reinforcers _____ and punishers _____ the future probability of the behavior that led to these respective consequences.

A speck of dirt that gets into your eye will naturally cause a blinking reflex. The speck of dirt is a(n):

In Pavlov's research, what was the CS?

Shaping reinforces _____ behavior sequences until the overall sequence of behavior is performed reliably.

Research on diffusion chains of behavior involving the novel use of a tool has been shown to be faithfully transmitted across _____ children.