Psychology Chapter 5 Learning

Conditioned taste aversions are an example of something called _____________________.

Biological preparedness

An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________________________.

Both of these are examples of taste aversions

Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning , she notices that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad. Over several weeks, she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys, immediately before leaving the house. Which phenomenon of learning best describes the dog's behavior?

Classical Conditioning

Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than to the original, natural stimulus is called________________________.

Classical Conditioning

Which of the following statements about learning is NOT true?

Learning is another word for "maturation."

What theorist proposed the cognitive perspective that explain that classical conditioning occurs because of the expectancy?

Rescorla

Which of the following is true of research on insight?

Researchers have found support for the existence of both human animal insight learning

A box used in operant conditioning of animals that the limits the available responses, and, thus, increase the likelihood that the desired response will occur is called a ________________.

Skinner Box

Molly is sometimes loud and disruptive in class, and her teacher thinks she acts this way when she wants attention. The teacher worries that yelling at Molly might serve as a positive reinforcement for her bad behavior because it is giving Molly the attention she wants. One behavior modification that might help with this child is __________________________.

Use of time outs to remove the positive reinforcement that even a scolding gives the child

Watson's experiment with Little Albert demonstrated that fear might be ______________________.

based on classical conditioning

A young child watches over her mother making pancakes. She wants to please her mother so she pays attention. However, when she goes to make the on her own, she can't break the eggs for the batter without making terrible mess and dropping them on the floor, no matter how hard she tries. Her attempt failed because of a problem with which part of the necessary components for observational learning?

imitation

In the "Little Albert" Study, the fear-producing stimulus used as USC was the _______________________.

loud noise

A girl learns that whenever her brother shares his cookie with her, her mother gives him a piece of candy. The girl starts sharing her treats with her friends when they come over in the hopes of getting a similar reward. The girl's learning to share is an example of ____________________.

observational learning

A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert. This type of learning is BEST explained by _______________________.

operant conditioning

When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that scheduled is called a _____________________________ schedule

ratio

Harmony notices that her cat salivates as soon as her cat hears the sound of Harmony opening a can with an electric can opener. In this example, the ___________________________ is the conditioned stimulus.

sound of the electric can opener

The reappearance of learned response after extinction has occurred is called ______________________.

spontaneous recovery

The tendency to respond to stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus is called ____________________.

stimulus generalization

In the process of shaping, behaviors are ordered in terms of increasing similarity to the desired response. These behaviors are called ______________________.

successive approximations

Which of the following criteria helps to increase the effectiveness of punishment?

when it is swift