Exam 5: Learning

According to B.F.Skinner,negative reinforcement of a response makes you more likely to continue to make that response.

Normally,when food is placed in the mouth of any animal,the salivary glands start releasing saliva to help with chewing and digestion.In terms of Pavlov's analysis of learning,salivation would be referred to as ________.

When a stimulus is removed from a person or animal resulting in a decrease in the probability of response,it is known as __________.

A reinforcer is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior,while a punisher is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior.

Which of the following events most intrigued Pavlov and led to his discoveries?

Biofeedback training is an application that uses the principles of operant conditioning.

A child is wetting his or her bed.According to our textbook,punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behavior.You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident.This is because punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviors.

An animal is conditioned to salivate to a metronome using Pavlovian procedures.After the conditioning is established,the animal is then put through an extinction procedure and the conditioned salivation disappears.Then the animal is removed from the test situation for several days.When returned to the test situation,the conditioned response is seen again.The effect is known as ________.

The abbreviation UCR stands for _____________.

How did the research of Taylor,Manganello,Lee,and Rice (2010)differ substantially from those who had come before in the exploration of the impact of spanking on children?

Give an example of latent learning that you might see in your own life.

When Karawynn Long trained her cat Misha to use a toilet instead of a litter box,the last step in the training was teaching the cat to flush the toilet.

Your parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti.Later,the parakeet gets ill.What would the research on biological preparedness predict?

_____________ is an operant-conditioning procedure in which successive approximations of a desired response are reinforced.

__________ is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice.

You need to remove a broken light bulb from a lam

The learning of phobias is a very good example of which certain type of classical conditioning?

Molly is sometimes loud and disruptive in class,and her teacher thinks she acts this way when she wants attention.The teacher worries that yelling at Molly might serve as a positive reinforcer for her bad behavior because it is giving Molly the attention she wants.One behavior modification that might help with this child is _______________.

Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20.What schedule of reinforcement is being used?

Explain the concept of conditioned taste aversions and how it might be applied to people undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments for cancer.