Exam 6: Learning

Dr.Wolfgang would like to conduct a study examining how children learn to use slang words based on listening to their peers.Dr.Wolfgang's research would benefit if he read the work of ________,a psychologist who investigated observational learning.

Katie is afraid of clowns.She has been trying to overcome this fear by getting into a relaxed state and then looking at pictures of clowns.After months of this exposure,she is no longer afraid when she sees a clown.Katie has been using ________ to overcome her fear.

When Kathy is in the shower and someone flushes the toilet,the water turns hot and she gets burned.Soon,Kathy becomes classically conditioned to fear the toilet flushing when she is in the shower.When Kathy visits her parents she does not get burned when someone flushes the toilet while she is in the shower.When she returns home and hears the toilet flush while in the shower,Kathy immediately feels a surge of fear.This example best illustrates the fact that extinction is

Miranda is learning how to play tennis.She has a unique way of hitting a backhand shot,but after a lesson with a professional instructor,Miranda changes her backhand technique because the technique she saw her instructor use is more efficient.Miranda has learned to improve her tennis due to

Channing believes that the best way to get his boyfriend to clean up after himself is by initiating sex as soon as his boyfriend cleans up the apartment.Channing knows that sex is a ________ reinforcer that will likely ________ the probability that his boyfriend will clean the apartment in the future.

If Carlos wants to use classical conditioning so his 3-year-old sister learns to be afraid of dogs,he should

Joseph used classical conditioning to teach his sister to be afraid of squirrels.If he is successful,the neutral stimulus,the squirrel,must have been paired with a(n)________,such as ________.

Mario believes that his son is learning to be aggressive because he plays violent video games.In what way could observational learning explain the connection Mario sees between media and his son's behavior?

Dr.Shaw has a patient who has a phobia of spiders and also loves doing puzzles.Dr.Shaw exposes the patient to spiders briefly while having the patient complete a fun puzzle.Dr.Shaw is using ________ to treat his patient's phobia.

When Mitch watches his brother Jacob stand on tiptoes to open the cabinet door,which of the following is most likely happening in Mitch's brain?

Timothy believes that his infant son was born as a blank slate,knowing nothing about the world.This information suggests that Timothy most likely believes in

A perfume advertisement uses classical conditioning to increase product appeal.To do this,it pairs the attractive face of the actor Brad Pitt with its perfume Chanel N? 5.If Brad Pitt elicits an innate response from you,he is being used as a(n)

Riley ate too much chocolate cake during his birthday party and was sick all night.If classical conditioning occurred and he associated the cake with being sick,then when Riley sees cake today,he will most likely

Claire wants to write a paper about how often animals use observational learning.Which of the following should Claire NOT include as evidence to support her point that animals use observational learning?

Susie wants to use operant conditioning to teach her cat to sit up for a treat.A psychologist who has conducted research that would be useful to her in this situation is

Gavin is a 3-year-old who used to color on the walls with his crayons.Gavin's father told him,"We color on paper,not on walls," and gave him a time-out.Gavin does not color on the walls anymore,which is most likely a result of all of the following EXCEPT

Genevieve wants her students to learn how to read their textbooks to answer questions about the material.She has her students do an ungraded in-class activity where they read sections of the book and answer questions about what they read on an activity sheet.A few weeks later,Genevieve assigns an activity sheet to go with her students' reading,but this time they receive a grade for finding the answers in the text.If the students do a good job and earn high grades on their answers,then their performance is most likely a result of

Lenny needs to quickly train his cows to use one specific field when they graze.The reinforcement that will allow the cows to learn most quickly is ________ reinforcement.

If Dr.Raybel wants to observe how people learn to play a new game,he may want to consult the founder of behaviorism,

Dante was recently bitten in the leg by a snake and now has learned to fear snakes.If his fear is out of proportion with the danger posed by snakes,then Dante has developed