Exam 7: Section 2: Learning

Tolman's experiments with rats and mazes strongly suggested that:

Amelia tells an off-color joke to her friends but not to her grandparents. Her audience represents the _____ in Skinner's three-term contingency.

Superstitious behavior:

The idea that behaviors followed by a "satisfying state of affairs" tend to be repeated and those that produce an "unpleasant state of affairs" are less likely to be repeated is known as:

From an evolutionary perspective, effective learning to avoid any food that has made you sick in the past should have all of these EXCEPT:

_____ is most known for his work on conditioned taste aversion.

Recent research has revealed that certain cells in the brain fire both when an animal performs an action and when it watches that action performed. These cells are called:

Participants who are studied under a serial reaction time test are shown five boxes on a computer screen. When a box lights up, they are to click it as quickly as possible. The boxes seemingly light up at random, but a pattern exists. Over time, participants respond _____ on this task _____ of the pattern.

Behaviorists were influenced by the work of Thorndike for all of these EXCEPT:

In what way did Thorndike's experiments significantly differ from Pavlov's?

A rat in a complicated maze with many arms, some of which are baited with food, will:

The case of superstitious behavior illustrates the fact that:

In the classic Bobo doll experiment, after watching adults get punished for hitting the Bobo doll, children:

Relative insensitivity to delayed rewards helps explain why it is:

A child throws a temper tantrum at the mall because he wants to play with the toy that his mother just bought him. The most effective way for his mother to punish this behavior is to:

Severing the connections between the amygdala and the _____ will result in the autonomic responses to fearful stimuli _____.

Applying transcranial magnetic stimulation to the motor cortex just after a person observed a novel task involving motor skill _____ observational learning.

An initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response because it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus is called a(n) _____ stimulus.

Which statement about observational learning is true?

Brain-imaging studies have revealed increased dopaminergic activity in the _____ when heterosexual men look at pictures of attractive women and in individuals who think that they are about to receive money.