Deck 6: C: Learning

Question 1

Thorndike's ____ principle asserts that rewards following behaviour lead to increased production of the behaviour.

Answer 1

law of effect

Question 2

In Watson's study involving "Little Albert," a ____ was the CS.

Answer 2

white rat

Question 3

____ is most closely associated with developing the theory of operant conditioning.

Answer 3

Skinner

Question 4

Most employees who work 40 hours per week are likely paid on a ____ schedule.

Question 5

Marketing executives use ____ when they employ celebrities to sell products.

Question 6

Most token economy conditioning strategies use chips,tokens,or points as ____ reinforcers.

Question 7

____is credited as developing the theory of classical conditioning.

Question 8

If Sam is afraid of spiders,it is likely that his fear of spiders is the result of ____ conditioning and this fear is maintained by ____ conditioning.

Question 9

The ____ is a conditioning strategy that promises to provide ice cream to someone if they eat their spinach.

Question 10

In Pavlov's classic salivating dog experiment,food is the ____.

Question 11

In pairings of the CS with the UCS,the ____ is presented first and the is ____ presented second.

Question 12

The process by which the CS no longer produces the CR is called ____.

Question 13

____ decreases the likelihood of behaviour being reproduced, while ____ decreases the likelihood of behaviour being reproduced.

Question 14

In classical conditioning,the CR and the ____ are usually the same.

Question 15

____ is the term used to describe the situation in which a CS produces a CR.

Question 16

A teacher states that all students who complete five word problems by the end of class will be exempt from homework.The teacher is using a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

Question 17

The schedule of reinforcement described as being most resistant to extinction is ____.

Question 18

Candy,ice cream,and cookies are examples of ____.

Question 19

If a white rat is conditioned to produce fear in a child and soon all white furry animals are feared by the child, ____ is said to occur.

Question 20

Allowing students with "A" averages exemptions from taking a final exam is an example of ____.

Question 21

Mirror neurons are discussed in relation to ____.

Question 22

Conditioned taste aversions typically result from only one pairing of the ____ and ____.

Question 23

____ was an advocate of radical behaviourism.

Question 24

____ uses the principles of operant conditioning with the addition of models being reinforced and punished.

Question 25

____ suggested that aggression is learned by watching aggressive models.