Psych 111 - Learning

Learning can occur by watching others and modeling what they do or say

According to Albert Bandura, ________.

behaviorism; latent learning

Strict followers of ________ believed that cognition did not have a role to play in learning, but ________ says otherwise.

Learning

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

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

What is the main idea of operant conditioning?

Conditioned Response

Grace whistles while tickling Khaleel with a feather. Eventually, Khaleel starts to squirm and giggle every time Grace whistles, even when he is not being tickled. In this example, squirming and giggling is a(n) ________.

fixed interval

Gus receives a paycheck every week. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

either the conditioned response or the unconditioned response, depending on the phase of the experiement

In Pavlov's well known experiment with the dog, salivation is ________.

negative reinforcement

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

spontaneous recovery

Mia is taught to go to sleep when the light is turned off. However, for many months Mia no longer falls asleep when the light is turned off. Later, Mia begins to fall asleep when the light is turned off again. This is an example of ________.

shaping

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

primary

________ reinforcers have innate reinforcing qualities.