心理考试2

Simon cringes every time he hears a dentist's drill, when he is sitting in the waiting room of his dentist's office. In this example, cringing in the waiting room is

A conditioned response

The initial stage of learning a response is called

Acquisition

A circus trainer wants to train cat to pull a rope as part of animal act. The probability that the cat will just pull a rope is very low. What technique would be the best choice to use to help the cat learn to emit the desired response? (Hint: I demonstrated this techniques in lecture by getting a student stage like a pigeon.)

Shaping

A small enclosure used by psychologists to study learning in which an animal can make aspecifific responses that is recorded while the consequences are symmetrically controlled is know as

Skinner box

When Diana was three years old, she became terrifified when the neighbor's budgie bird kept flflying near her head. Today, she is afraid of all birds, including robins, pigeons, and blue jays. Diana's fear illustrates the classical conditioning process of

Stimulus generalization

Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?

Stopping nagging a child when he fifinally cleans his room

Jonathan ate a bad batch of clam chowder and became ill with food poisoning. Now he finds that even the smell chowder can make him feel queasy. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus:

The clam chowder Jonathan consumed

When advertisers pair their products with attractive people or enjoyable surrounding in the hope that the pairings will cause their products to evoke good feelings, they are using principles derived from

Classical conditioning

A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus is known as whereas a form which responses come to be controlled by their consequences.

Classical conditioning; operant conditioning

When a researcher reinforces a response only some of the time, it is referred to as

Intermittent reinforcement