Psychology module 3

At first a coach praises a basketball player for behaviors that are only remotely like those that will sink a basket. Gradually, the coach restricts praise to behaviors that are closer and closer to the desired behavior. The coach is using a training strategy called:

Shaping

In classical conditioning the unconditioned response is

The response given by the subject outside of the stimulus

Learning is

a relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior due to experience

In a follow-up study to the original Bobo Doll experiment, Badura observed the process of vicarious reinforcement, where children behaved less aggressively when

aggressive models were punished

Simon's rabbit gets a treat every night. The treats come in a plastic bag that makes a crinkling sound. When the rabbit hears the bag he runs to the door of his cage to wait for the treat. One night when Simon is eating chips the rabbit hears the sound of the bag and runs to his cage door. The sound of the bag is:

conditioned stimulus

A child who learns to play kickball by sitting back and watching is engaged in

observational learning

For most people, receiving money after performing some behavior would make that behavior more likely to recur in the future. Thus, money is form them a:

positive reinforcer

If the arrival of a stimulus following a response increases the likelihood that the response will recur, the stimulus is a:

positive reinforcer

When exposed to adults who say one thing and do another, children will tend to

say the same things and do what they observed the adults doing

Natural selection has shaped the brains of omnivores to

use smell and taste to distinguish known harmful foods from known harmless foods

In a _____ schedule, the period of time that must elapse before a response will be reinforced varies unpredictably around some average

variable-interval