Ch 5 Learning Flashcards
The American psychologist experimentally demonstrated the learning of taste aversions and animals was:
John Garcia
What is an accurate statement about the process of conditioning?
Conditioning is limited to human experience.
Conditioning is reflected in most of a person’s everyday behavior.
Conditioning is reflected in just one element of a person’s day.
Conditioning has only a limited range of applications.
Conditioning is reflected in most of a persons everyday behavior.
Classical conditioning involves the repeated. Of a _____ Stimulus with a response producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response.
Neutral
Urgent Belkton fear of attics after his wife accidentally Locked him in his own attic. Erv’s present fear of the attic is a _____ emotional response.
Conditioned
What approach dominated the field of psychology from the 1930s to the 1950s?
Behaviorism
This may occur when subjects get more benefit from the human contact of a research study than from the actual treatment under clinical investigation.
Placebo effect
Baby Josie has learned that every time she cries her mother Picks her up. Although only six months old, Josie has already successfully applied a basic learning principle known as _____ with her mother.
Conditioning
Learning typically involves:
No change in the state of the learner.
A temporary and short change in behavior.
A punishment for undesirable behavior.
A long-lasting change in the state of the learner.
A long-lasting change in the state of the learner.
Dr. Lemos is a behavioral psychologist who conducts basic research using animals in carefully controlled laboratory studies. The goal of this research is likely to be to:
- Train animals to perform entertaining tricks.
- Identify the general principles of learning that apply across in a wide range of species, including humans.
- Collect and sell saliva from dogs and other animals.
Identify the general principles of learning that apply across in a wide range of species, including humans
Known as a staunch behaviorist, _____ believed that psychology should restrict itself to studying only that which can be objectively measured in verified.
B. F. Skinner
The behavioral researcher Edward C Tolman propose that learning can occur without reinforcement in without being manifested in actual performance improvement. This type of learning, known as _____, showed that rats formed “cognitive maps” of mazes even without being reinforced.
Latent learning
Skinner coined the term _____ to describe any “active behavior that operates upon the environment to generate consequences.”
Operant
Harry is learning to crawling every time he gets on his nieces mother plods and says, “go harry!” Harry’s mother is using a _____ schedule of reinforcement.
Continuous
When responding decreases with the elimination of reinforcing consequences, this is known as the _____ process in _____ conditioning.
Extinction, operant
Classical conditioning focuses on _____ behavior, whereas operant conditioning focuses on _____ behavior.
Reflexive; voluntary
The development of opera conditioning can be credited to the American psychologist named _____.
B. F. Skinner
Law of effect applies to:
Voluntary behaviors
Behavior that is designed to team stimuli is part of _____ conditioning.
Operant
According to the _____ model developed by _____, behavior is shaped and maintained by its environmental consequences.
Operant conditioning, B.F. Skinner
Behavior that is designed to obtain stimuli is part of:
Operant conditioning
A word of praises is to a delicious meal as _____ is to _____.
Conditioned reinforcer, primary reinforcer
Dave got stuck in elevator in a high-rise office building one morning. Now he refuses to enter an elevator. If “entering an elevator” is the operant, what type of consequence has altered Gabe’s behavior?
Punishment by application
