6. Learning

What trend did Pavlov notice that eventually became the focus of his research?

Which term describes the bell in Pavlov's experiment before the acquisition phase?

Dr. Cho runs a lab studying learning in rats. Rats typically show a fear response (like freezing) when presented with a loud noise. Dr. Cho pairs a loud noise with a flash of light repeatedly until the rats freeze at the light alone. In this study, what is the conditioned stimulus?

For higher-order conditioning to occur, a new neutral stimulus must be paired with what?

Which of the following statements are accurate?

I) A cat runs to the kitchen every time they hear kibble being poured. Over time, the also begin to run to the kitchen anytime someone pours cereal. This is an example of stimulus generalization.

II) As stimulus generalization decreases, stimulus discrimination also decreases.

III) In stimulus discrimination, a similar stimulus will not elicit the conditioned response.

Which of the following situation is an example of extinction?

After extinction, a conditioned response may reappear when the conditioned stimulus is presented again after some time. What is this phenomenon?

Research suggests that once people learn something

When children witness other children cry when getting a vaccination, and the witnesses then cry before the needle even touches them, it is an example of

Which of the following examples of change demonstrates learning?

While in the store with her little sister, Latisha decided to stop to take a look at some jewelry. As soon as she turned her head, her sister disappeared. Though it only took minutes to find her, Latisha's fear of losing her sister again caused Latisha to keep a very close eye on her from that moment on. Latisha's change in behavior demonstrates which of the following?

In defining learning,  _____ refers to the fact that when people learn anything, a part of their brain is physically changed to record what they have learned, and that change remains even if the behavior does not.

Birds who find their food by sight will avoid any object or insect that simply looks like the one that previously made them sick. This is a result of

Pavlov initially set out to study the _____ of his dogs.

_____ believed that classical conditioning occurred because the conditioned stimulus became a substitute for the unconditioned stimulus when paired closely together in time.

An unlearned, involuntary response, such as salivating when presented with food, is

A stimulus that has no effect on the desired response is a(n) _____ stimulus.

When a previously neutral stimulus, through repeated pairing with the unconditioned stimulus, begins to cause the same kind of reflexive response, the neutral stimulus has become

For classical conditioning to be effective, the conditioned stimulus must be

When Pavlov stopped giving the dogs food after the real conditioned stimulus, they stopped salivating to the sound of the ticking. This is called

Without the _____, higher-order conditioning would be difficult to maintain and would gradually fade away.

A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary (reflex) response is a(n)

In his classical conditioning experiment, Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to salivate when they

_____ is the disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus (in classical conditioning) or the removal of a reinforcer (in operant conditioning).

_____ pioneered the empirical study of the basic principles of classical conditioning.

_____ is the classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotion by watching the reaction of another person.

The response that is given to the conditioned stimulus is not usually quite as strong as the original unconditioned response

After a lengthy period during which the unconditioned stimulus was not applied, Pavlov's dogs stopped responding to the metronome. If a weaker conditioned response to the metronome occurred at some point after this, it would be a demonstration of

Pavlov's dogs exhibited stimulus discrimination when they

The term extinction may be misleading, because

Four-year-old Joshua reacts with anxiety to the sound of thunder. A chair slides across the wooden floor, making a sound similar to thunder. Joshua reacts with some slight anxiety. This is an example of

Whenever you take a shower in your bathroom at home, the water in the shower turns icy cold just as the toilet in another bathroom is flushed, causing you to cringe. After several such experiences, you find that you tend to cringe whenever you hear a toilet flush, even when you are not in the shower. In this example of classical conditioning, what is the unconditioned stimulus?

At the end of the first day of kindergarten and the entire week thereafter, Jeremiah's teacher exclaimed, 'You may all leave' just after the sounding of a loud bell. On the first day of the second week of school, Jeremiah immediately left the room just as the school bell rang, without any notice from his teacher. In this example, what is the conditioned response?

Dr. Rubio is conducting an experiment in classical conditioning. Shortly after playing music, she places a loaf of bread on the window sill outside her office window. After doing this a number of times, she notices that now, just as she begins to play her music, several birds fly to her window even before she presents the bread. In this example, what is the conditioned stimulus?

Khalila decided to try a new dish consisting of rice and tomatoes just as she was coming down with the flu. Now, every time she sees rice or tomatoes, she gets sick to her stomach. In this example, Khalila's experience of nausea at the sight of rice or tomatoes exhibits a(n)

Theo gets excited whenever he finds a quarter lying on the ground outside. While walking home from school one day, Theo noticed a shiny round object lying on the sidewalk and became very excited. He soon realized that the object was a bottle cap and his excitement quickly dissipated. Which of the following concepts is demonstrated in this example?

Shortly after eating a piece of his great aunt's famous coconut cake, which he has had many times, Amad became very nauseous. Now, whenever his great aunt offers him a piece of cake, Amad quickly declines. Which of the following concepts best explains Amad's change in behavior?

Voluntary behavior, to Skinner, was _____ behavior.

_____ was one of the first researchers to look at the laws involved in learning voluntary responses.

The heart of operant conditioning is the effect of _________ on behavior.

The behavior of infants and animals can be easily reinforced using

_____  reinforcement is more resistant to extinction than _____ reinforcement.

The law of effect states if an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, the action is likely to

Small steps in behavior that are reinforced, one after the other, to create a particular goal behavior are known as

Following a response with the removal of something unpleasant is called

Which of the following would be considered a negative reinforcement?

Marco's mom gives him a treat every night after dinner when he picks up his plate and places it in the dishwasher. Marco's mom uses

In most employment situations, people are paid

Fishing is an example of an activity with a _____ schedule of reinforcement.

For every 25 boxes of cookies Tammy sells, her scout troop gets a dollar. On what schedule of reinforcement is Tammy being conditioned?

Tamar just cannot seem to get away from the slot machines. She has no idea how many times she has to pull the levers to win money, but she is aware that at some point, she is likely to win. What schedule of reinforcement is being used in this example?

In a(n) _____, the occurrence of reinforcement is more predictable and therefore the individual being reinforced is more likely to adjust his response to the timing of the reinforcement.

A behavior is more resistant to extinction if it is

If your professor gives pop quizzes, this is an example of

Cleveland kept talking out of turn in his fourth-grade class, no matter how many times the teacher told him to stop. Finally, in desperation, the teacher sent Cleveland to the principal's office. This action of sending the student to the principal's office is a form of

Anna's mother scolds her for lying. Anna's mother is using

Time-out is an example of

Research suggests a link between spanking and

A _____ fulfills a basic need like hunger.

For each day of the week that Tanya is good, she earns a fake dollar from her teacher. By the end of every week, Tanya has the option of using her dollars to buy something from the school store or saving them to buy something at a later time. The issue of fake dollars in response to good behavior is an example of

Operant conditioning relies on

A modern term for a form of behavior modification that uses shaping techniques to mold a desired behavior or response is

Dorothea eats all of her dinner knowing that afterward she will get a bowl of ice cream. Dorothea's behavior is best explained by what type of learning?

Aida loves to sing for her family and friends but is extremely shy. In order to encourage her to sing again, which of the following is a primary reinforcement that Aida's mom might use?

After passing his chemistry exam, Tito was told by his parents that he would be able to have access to the family car for a week. Tito's parents are using

Every time Paul's neighbor upstairs plays loud music, Paul bangs on his ceiling with a broom and the music stops. Paul's behavior of banging on the ceiling to get the music to stop is an example of

One of B. F. Skinner's famous experiments involved

After having many cavities fixed as a child, Kyle now has an active dislike of the dentist's drill. His tendency to become anxious when hearing a similar-sounding noise is termed

Carla was bitten by a dog when she was a toddler. She's older now, but still backs up in fear whenever a dog approaches her. This is an example of

Whenever Vernon comes home too late on a Saturday night, his parents refuse to give him his weekly allowance. Vernon's parents are using what technique to modify his behavior?

A teacher has decided to give 'caught being good' tickets to her students when they behave according to class rules. This teacher also rewards students with gold stars each time they improve their math speed. This teacher is using

In order to increase reading among the students in her class, Mrs. Gomez, a second-grade teacher, has students record their reading by placing stickers on a large chart. For every 10 stickers, students receive a new book. Mrs. Gomez is using

A typical use of applied behavior analysis is

The mental events that take place inside a person's mind while behaving are known as

Kohler's idea of animal insight was controversial because

In Tolman's study of latent learning, one group of rats was rewarded for getting out of the maze, a second was not rewarded during training trials but was rewarded eventually, and a third group of rats was

In his study of rats in mazes, Tolman concluded that the rats in the group that did not receive reinforcement for solving the maze had

Learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful is called

In Köhler's experiment, Sultan the chimp first used just one stick that was lying in his cage to rake the banana into the cage, and then he learned to fit two sticks together to reach a banana placed farther away. This was an example of

Further studies that followed Köhler's work with chimpanzees

The learning/performance distinction is a kind of

Köhler determined that insight

Seligman connects learned helplessness to

In Seligman's study on dogs, the dogs that were not conditioned to fear the tone

Which of the following individuals believed that cognition was an important part of behavior?

In his later studies, Bandura added the condition of _____ into his studies of children and the Bobo doll.

Bandura conducted some of his research to study

Bandura concluded that there were _____ elements of observational learning.

According to Bandura, to learn anything through observation, the learner must first

Which of the following is one of Bandura's elements of observational learning?

Which psychologist is best known for working with children and a Bobo doll to study whether aggressive behavior is learned by watching others be aggressive?

In a later modification of the classic Bobo doll experiment, the children who had seen a model beat up the doll and then get rewarded showed aggression toward the doll. Another group had seen the model get punished rather than rewarded. Which of the following statements about these other children is true?

Sammy and his friends are watching animated fight scenes on television. Based on Bandura's findings in the Bobo doll experiment, it seems likely that later, at play, Sammy and his friends will

A five-year-old watches his father dunk a basketball. Because the child is unable to reach the basket in the way his father can, the child cannot learn this behavior by observing because he cannot accomplish the step of

Noah is a junior in college and has always been an average student. This semester, he has a political science class for which he feels very passionate, and he sees himself pursuing a career in politics. For the first time, he wants to do well so that he can get an "A." This is an example of which element of observational learning?

_____ is learning new behavior by watching a model perform that behavior.

The four elements of observational learning are attention, memory, _____, and _____.

When adolescents move into Jean Piaget's final stage of formal operations, which behavior becomes possible?

A child who criticizes a parent for speeding because speeding is against the law is demonstrating _____ morality.

Towanda recently noticed that she has a small pimple on her forehead. She now refuses to go out in public, fearing that everyone will notice her pimple and laugh. Towanda's egocentric behavior is an example of a(n)