Exam 5: Learning

Professor Rochelle told her students that if her door was closed it meant that she was unavailable to them and would be angry if they knocked on her door.But if her door was open,it meant that she was in a rare good mood and would answer questions at that time.Professor Rochelle's door being open was a ___________ for _______________.

Seligman's concept of learned helplessness has been extended into the field of psychopathology to explain the emergence of schizophrenia in late adolescence.

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his shee

Describe Pavlov's classical conditioning studies in terms of the UCS,UCR,CS,CR and his results.Briefly discuss two examples of classical conditioning in your own life,naming the UCS,UCR,CS,and CR.

After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome,he experimented with sounding the metronome and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away.Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome.This represents the process called ___________________.

A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned her room.What is the cookie in this example?

When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.The salivation was a(n)____________.

When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement,that schedule is called a _____________ schedule.

Albert was a little boy who was shown to be remarkably resistant to having his emotional responses conditioned by Watson.Watson presented Albert with a cute little furry rat and then rang a loud bell.Later,Albert should have become scared of the bell,but this never happened.

Unlike mammals,birds seem to develop conditioned aversions to food based on which sense?

In a conditioning experiment,a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit.After several pairings,the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound.Which of the following is true?

What was the conditioned stimulus (CS)in the case of Little Albert?

Little Albert's acquired fear of a white rat was a classic example of a(n)_____________________ response.

Maricella works as a seamstress.Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts,she will receive $5.When done with the five shirts,she dumps them into a bin and gets paid.Her pattern of shirt completion is most likely to be _____.

Reinforcement that is given for a response emitted after each hour and half (e.g. ,10 a.m. ,11:30 a.m. ,1

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

In their 1961 paper on instinctive drift,the Brelands determined that three assumptions most Skinnerian behaviorists believed in were not actually true.Which is one of the assumptions that was NOT true?

Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "Bobo" doll study.The term Bobo refers to ____________.

________ refers to a series of smaller behaviors that eventually form a desired and more complex behavior when reinforced operantly.

After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory overseas as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together IPODs.The boss wants to know the best pay schedule to get the maximum number of pieces made by his workers.The boss wants you to describe various schedules of payment to him and tell which might be best for the plant.Using the principles of operant conditioning,describe the various pay schedules and what would be the best one for his goal of getting the most production.