Deck 6: E: Learning

Question 1

A slot machine is a classic example of an)___________schuedule of reinforcement because players never know how many times they will have to pull the arm before they win again.

Answer 1

variable-ratio

Question 2

One of the primary mechanisms that allows observational learning to take place is___________ ,the recreating of a motor behaviour or expression,often to accomplish a specific goal.

Answer 2

imitation

Question 3

One of the difficulties in demonstrating that exposure to media violence increases aggression is that fact that much of the research on media violence and aggression relies on___________ designs,which do not allow researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships.

Answer 3

correlational

Question 4

Learning that involves processes such as reading,listening,and test taking is called___________ learning.

Question 5

John Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrated that people suffering from___________ may have been accidentally conditioned to have emotional responses to specific stimuli or situations.

Question 6

When researchers want to use operant conditioning to train animals to perform complicated behaviours,they must use a step-by-step procedure called___________ .

Question 7

The four processes involved in ___________include attention to the act or behaviour,memory for it,the ability to reproduce it,and the motivation to do so.

Question 8

One reason why drug users increase their dosages over time is a classical conditioning phenomenon known as___________ ,which involves physiological responses in preparation for drug administration.

Question 9

When one of Pavlov's dogs salivated in response to the food,the salivation was an) __________but when the dogs salivated to the sound of a metronome, the salivation should be called an) ___________