psych 2000 ch 6: Learning

Which of the following is the decrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus?

extinction

In operant conditioning, ________ is when something is removed to increase the likelihood of a behavior.

negative reinforcement

Learning that occurs while watching others and then imitating, or modeling, what they do or say is called ________ learning.

observational

Which of the following is an example of a fixed interval reinforcement schedule?

playing basketball with your friends after completing your chores????

Which term best describes rewarding successive approximations of a target behavior?

shaping

If a slamming door is a conditioned stimulus, then being able to distinguish between the sound of a slamming door and the sound of a heavy item being dropped would represent ________.

stimulus discrimination

In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between a ________.

neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

Frances receives one dollar for every pound of worms she gives her grandfather. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

fixed ratio

Mabel clicks her tongue while tickling Francis. Eventually, Francis starts to squirm and giggle every time Mabel clicks her tongue, even when he is not being tickled. In this example, tongue clicking is a(n) ________.

conditioned stimulus

If a stimulus plus a response results in a satisfying outcome, the probability of that response occurring again ________.

increases

What is the main idea of operant conditioning?

Behavior is motivated by the consequences we receive for the behavior: reinforcements and punishments.

Dave's boss told him that he doesn't have to attend the company picnic (which everybody dislikes) if Dave meets his sales quota this month. Dave's boss is using ________.

negative reinforcement

You call a friend on the phone and repeatedly get sent to voicemail, so you continue to call her every 5-20 minutes hoping to speak to her personally. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

variable interval

In classical conditioning, the ________ is an unlearned reaction to a given stimulus. For example, if you have an allergy to pollen and sneeze, sneezing is an unlearned reaction to the pollen (i.e., the stimulus).

unconditioned response

What do psychologists call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?

learning

Learning that occurs but is not observable in behavior until there is a reason to demonstrate it is called ________ learning.

Latent

Harold catches fish throughout the day at unpredictable intervals. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

variable interval

Which of the following is an example of operant conditioning?

when a dog plays dead she gets a treat in order to encourage her to repeat the behavior

In operant conditioning, what describes adding something to decrease the likelihood of behavior?

positive punishment

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? In operant conditioning, organisms learn to associate events that repeatedly happen together.

The word "operant" should be changed to the word "classical."