Exam 5: Learning

Neurofeedback,a newer type of biofeedback,involves trying to change ____________.

The "aha!" experience is known as ________________.

Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of dogs,and they began to salivate.The food acted as a (an) ____________.

Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of the dogs,and they began to salivate.Pavlov's student noticed that after a few days the dogs began to salivate at the sound of the student's footsteps.The salivation to the sound of the Footsteps was a _______.

Bandura's seminal study of observational learning involved watching children and their interactions with Bobo dolls.

A key element in the use of biofeedback is teaching a person to induce a state of _____________ to help gain control over biological functions.

A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on ______.

A researcher places dogs in a cage with metal bars on the floor.The dogs are randomly given electric shocks and can do nothing to prevent them or stop them.Later,the same dogs are placed in a cage where they can escape the shocks by jumping over a low hurdle.When the shocks are given,the dogs do not even try to escape.They just sit and cower.This is an example of ____________.

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his shee

Give an example of a conditioned response.

A _________ reinforcer,such as money or praise,gets its value through an association with a _________ reinforcer.

What are the four factors that Bandura finds necessary for observational learning?

Why is learning described as a "relatively permanent" change?

It is even possible to become classically conditioned by simply watching someone else respond to a stimulus in a process called ________________.

Olivia is punished for spilling her cereal.Her parents give her a spanking and send her to her room where she cries.Later,her puppy makes a mess on the floor.Olivia kicks her puppy and puts it out in the yard where it whines sadly.Which of the following statements explains her behavior toward the puppy?

Which of the following processes occur in both operant conditioning and classical conditioning?

A young child watches her mother make pancakes.She wants to please her mother so she pays attention.However,when she goes to make them on her own,she can't break the eggs for the batter without making a terrible mess and dropping them on the floor,no matter how hard she tries.Her attempt failed because of a problem with which part of the necessary components for observational learning?

When Keller and Marian Breland,two psychologists who became animal trainers,decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box,they found that _______________.

You train your dog,Milo,to salivate at the sound of a bell.Then you ring the bell every five minutes and don't follow the ringing with food for Milo.He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at all when the bell rings.But the next morning,when you ring the bell,Milo salivates! What term is used to explain the reappearance of this response?

After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together IPODs.They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of IPODs they put together in a day.You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of IPODs put together).According to Skinner,you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.