LearningCurve: 7c. Biology, Cognition, and Learning
similar to them.
A guest will be spending time in a classroom. To make sure the students imitate this person's prosocial behaviors, the teacher should pick a guest who the children think is:
observational
Albert Bandura studied _____ learning.
taste aversion.
An hour after Marshall ate a hamburger at his favorite fast-food restaurant, he had an upset stomach and spent the rest of the evening vomiting. When he went to the restaurant a week later, he became nauseous as soon as he saw a hamburger. His nausea is an example of:
observational learning.
Children who have fathers who are incarcerated for abusing their wives or girlfriends are at high risk for following the same path in life. This can be attributed to:
mirror neurons
Children with autism spectrum disorder have difficulty learning from observing others, a deficit that is believed to be due to impaired:
intrinsic motivation
Foster is taking AP chemistry in high school because he loves science and is fascinated by chemistry experimentation. Foster is motivated by:
biological predispositions.
If Georgia gets violently ill a couple of hours after eating contaminated food, she will probably develop an aversion to the taste of that food but not to the sight of the restaurant where she ate or to the sound of the music she heard there. This BEST illustrates that associative learning is constrained by
observational learning.
Lana is in dental school and is learning the correct way to take an X-ray of the mouth. Her instructor shows the class a video that demonstrates the proper procedures, then demonstrates the procedures using Lana as a "patient." The class is learning through the use of:
she has formed a cognitive map of the area.
Michelle always drives down Hampton Avenue to go to the work. One morning Michelle discovers that Hampton Avenue is closed at Wood Street because of construction. Michelle immediately takes a different route to work. She is able to make a quick route change because:
She will act rudely but talk about how important it is to be polite.
Nicole's parents often say one thing, and do another. For example, they often tell Nicole how important it is to be polite, but they are not very polite themselves. How would you expect this contradiction to impact Nicole's behavior?
He will find the smell of tequila aversive.
Ray drank too much tequila last night. He spent much of the morning feeling nauseous and vomiting. According to the principles of classical conditioning, how will Ray likely react today when he smells the tequila bottle that he drank out of last night?
his cognitive map of the area
Road construction prevents Binit from getting to campus using the route he always travels. He thinks about the situation for a moment and then comes up with a different route. Binit has used _____ to figure out this alternative route.
observational learning
Studies show that a significant number of children who are victims of child abuse become child abusers themselves. This unfortunate behavior is most likely learned through:
play her own musical instrument in front of her children.
Tina's goal is to raise children who enjoy playing musical instruments. Given what is known about observational learning, we should recommend that Tina should:
intrinsic motivation.
Ty spends hours practicing baseball every day without a coach telling him to do so. Ty's dedication to baseball can be explained by:
Birds appear biologically primed to develop aversions to the sight of tainted food because they hunt by sight.
Which of the following is evidence that animals are predisposed to learn associations that help them adapt and survive in their environment?
The biological predisposition to perform natural behaviors can interfere with learning operant behaviors.
Which of the following statements BEST describes the phenomenon of instinctive drift?