Exam 5: Learning

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 ________.

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 farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his shee

The abbreviation UCR stands for ________.

In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll,the children in the group who saw the model punished did not imitate the model at first.They would only imitate the model if given a reward for doing so.The fact that these children had obviously learned the behavior without actually performing it is an example of ________.

For observational learning to occur,each of the following must happen EXCEPT ______.

John has been working on a math problem late at night without success;he falls aslee

Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning,she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad.Over several weeks,she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys,immediately before leaving the house.Which phenomenon of learning best describes the dog's behavior?

Conditioned taste aversions are an example of something called __________.

The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is ________.

Using continuous reinforcement is the best way to prevent a response from becoming extinguished.

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

The "aha!" moment that indicates insight learning was first hypothesized by Tolman.

Current views of conditioning by psychologists,such as Rescorla,indicate that learning is completely automatic and has nothing to do with cognitive processes.

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

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?

A change in behavior that is relatively permanent and brought about by experience is commonly referred to by psychologists as acquisition behavior.

A stimulus presented to a person or animal that decreases the probability of a particular response is known as ________.

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 ________.

A monthly paycheck best represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.