Exam 7: Learning

Which of the following reinforcers is correctly categorized?

Observational learning is defined as

Discuss the relationship between specific learning disorder and intellectual ability.

Shaping as a means for teaching new behaviours relies on rewarding successive ___ of the desired behaviours until the complete behavioural sequence emerges.

Damian is meeting with his psychology study group to discuss why we sleep and how sleep has a role in learning and memory.Which student's view is consistent with the work of Tononi and Cirelli (2014)?

Provide an example of a specific phobia.Explain how the condition may have developed through classical conditioning by identifying the sequence of events associated with the US,UR,CS,and CR.

Niles is learning how to use a screwdriver to remove a screw by watching his dad do one screw and then he tries the next one.This is an example of

What two groups of individuals may be especially vulnerable to conditioned taste aversion?

Violetta is a newborn who is listening to a song that is making her relax.Before she was born,her mother would do relaxation meditations while listening to this song.What kind of learning is this?

In the ___,attention to one stimulus blocks our ability to attend to another stimulus.

A hockey team manages to score on a goalie,on average,one out of every 10 shots on the net.What kind of schedule of reinforcement is this?

All the following were mentioned in your text as something that facilitates learning EXCEPT

The term 'reward' is synonymous with

Define spatial navigation learning,implicit and latent learning,and insight learning.

Wendy went out with her officemates for snacks and drinks and became violently ill shortly afterward.She attributed her sickness to the food she ate,and if we could zoom ahead in her life,we'd likely find that she will never eat that food again.Meanwhile,of all the events at the restaurant that she could have associated with the sickness (i.e.,the background music,the server,the lighting,the smell in the air,etc.),she associated it with the food.This suggests that

Explain how a conditioned taste aversion occurs by identifying the US,UR,CS,and CR.

In what way is vicarious learning like operant conditioning?

The fact that spontaneous recovery occurs at all shows us that

While Mallory is pregnant she listens to classical music and does relaxation exercises every evening before bed.If Mallory continues with this routine,which of the following might Mallory notice?

You are trying to train your cat Abby to stay off the kitchen counters.Every time she jumps up on the counter,you spray her with water.In this example,the water is the ___,and the counter is the ___.