Exam 7: Learning

After Betty noticed that her best girlfriend often received praise from adults for good manners like saying thank you, Betty began doing the same in hopes of receiving praise from adults. This best illustrates

After repeatedly drinking alcohol spiked with a nauseating drug, people with alcohol use disorder may fail to develop an aversion to alcohol because they blame their nausea on the drug. This illustrates the importance of ________ in classical conditioning.

In Pavlov's original experiment with dogs, the meat served as

You repeatedly hear a tone just before having a puff of air directed to your eye. Blinking to the tone presented without an air puff is a

If rats are allowed to wander through a complicated maze, they will subsequently run the maze with few errors when a food reward is placed at the end. Their good performance demonstrates

Children who are promised a payoff for playing with an interesting toy have later been observed to play with the toy less than those who are not promised the reward. This provides evidence for the role of ________ in operant behavior.

Children are especially likely to behave aggressively after viewing TV violence in which an attractive person commits

A pigeon receives food for pecking a key, but only rarely and on unpredictable occasions. This best illustrates

If a ringing bell causes a dog to salivate because the bell has been regularly associated with food in the mouth, the UR is the

Pavlov is to classical conditioning as ________ is to ________.

The "psychic secretions" that Pavlov initially considered an annoyance were

Researchers condition a flatworm to contract when exposed to light by repeatedly pairing the light with electric shock. The electric shock is a(n)

Your heart may race when you are confronted by a lion but not when you are approached by a kitten. This best illustrates the adaptive value of

A patient who had long feared going into elevators was told by his therapist to force himself to enter 20 elevators a day. The therapist most likely wanted to encourage the ________ of the patient's fear.

An event that decreases the behavior that precedes it is a

In Garcia and Koelling's studies of taste-aversion learning, rats learned to associate

When a conditioned stimulus is presented without an accompanying unconditioned stimulus, ________ will soon take place.

Alexis is addicted to drugs. The room in which she usually takes them is likely to become a(n) ________ for drug cravings.

Voluntary behaviors that produce rewarding or punishing consequences are called

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?