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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| you decide you may want to try to classically condition your dog. what is the correct order that you should use to present the stimuli to your dog | netrual stimulus- unconditioned stimulus |
| when pavlov placed powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects, they began to salivate. the salivation was | unconditioned response |
| which of the following correctly describes the process of classical conditioning | pairing a stimulus that naturally causes a certain response with a second stimulus that does not naturally cause that response |
| the correct responsible for discovering classical conditioning | pavlov |
| after you successfully classically conditioned your pet dog, you repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus w/o ever pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus. over time, your dog stops performing the conditioned response. what has happened? | extinction |
| john watson offered a live white rat to little albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. the white rat served as the ? in this study | condtioned stimulus |
| pavlov discovered classical conditioning through his study of | digestive secretions in dogs |
| television advertisers have taken advantage of the fact that most people experience positive emotions when they see an attractive, smiling person. this association is an example of | a conditioned emotional response |
| the current view of why classical conditioning works the way it does, by cognitive theorists such as rescorla, adds the concept of ? to the conditioning process | expectancy |
| "if a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. if a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." this is a statement of | thornlike's law of effect |
| kendra has a new pet cat and decides to modify her cat's behavior by administrating pleasant and unpleasant consequences after her cat's behavior | operant conditioning |
| a box used in operant condioning of animals, which limits the available responses and thus increases the likeihood that the desired response will occur | skinner box |
| a negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ? and thus ? the probability of a response | removed, increases |
| the partial reinforcement effect refers to a response that is reinforced after some, but not all; correct responses will be | more resistant to extinction than a response recieving continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) |
| which example best describes the fixed interval schdule of reinforcement | recieving a pay check after two weeks of work |
| which schdule should you select if you would like to produce the highest number of responses with the least number of pauses between the responses? | variable ratio |
| when a stimulus is removed from a person or animal and decreases the probability of response, it is known as | punishment by removal |
| your child has begun drawing on the walls of your house and you would like this activity to stop. which of the following actions would, at least temporialy, decrease the occurance of the behavior in your child | punish your child after she draws on the wall |
| an example of a discriminative stimulus might be | a stop sign |
| in their 1961 paper on instinctive drift, the brelands determined that three assumptions most skinnerian behaviorists believed in were not actually true. which is one of the assumptions that were NOT true | all of these were not true |
| applied behavior analysis or ABA has been used with autistic children. the basic principle of this form of behavior modification | shaping |
| ? is a type of operant conditioning that is used by humans to bring involuntary responses, such as heart rate and blood pressure, under their voluntary control | biofeedback |
| cognition refers to | the mental events that take place while a person is behaving |
| the idea that learning occurs, and is stored up, even when behaviors are not reinforced | latent learning |
| the "aha" experience is known as | insight learning |
| if you learn how to fix your car by watching someone on tv demonstrate the technique, you are acquiring that knowledge through | observational learning |
| in bandura's study of observational learning, the abbreviation AMIM stands for | attention, memory, imitation, motivation |
| which of the following real- world situations is using the principles of classical conditioning | a hungry child smiling at the sight of the spoon her dad always uses to feed her lunch |
| the active system that recieves information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away and then retrives information from storage | memory |
| retention of memory for some period of time | storage |
| the processes of encoding, storage and retrieval are seen as part of the ? model of memory | all of the above are correct |