Chapter 11: Dollard and Miller

Question 1

Four fundamental concepts about learning

Answer 1

want, notice, do, get

Question 2

what a person wants, what motivates learning

Answer 2

Drive

Question 3

what a person notices which clues in person as to how to behave. determine when he will respond, where he will respond and which response he will make.

Answer 3

Cue

Question 4

What a person does, which can be learned

Answer 4

Response

Question 5

list of all responses a person could make in a given situation arranged from most likely to least likely

Answer 5

Response hierarchy.

Question 6

Most likely response in the response hierarchy.

Answer 6

Dominate response (R1)

Question 7

anything which reduces drive

Answer 7

Reward

Question 8

Situation in which existing responses are not rewarded which leads to change

Answer 8

learning dilemma

Question 9

Return of a response that was previously extinguished. Goes backward on response hierarchy

Answer 9

spontaneous recovery.

Question 10

a learned response in one stimulus situation (being bit by one dog) arouses a fear in individual of others of its kind (all dogs)

Answer 10

Stimulus generalization

Question 11

a person’s behavior being the same as that of a model, using the same cues, reinforcements as well as response.

Answer 11

Same Behavior

Question 12

learning to behave in the same way as a model but not in response to the same cues as the model, in order to be rewarded by perceived similarity to the model

Answer 12

Copying

Question 13

A choice between incompatible responses must be made

Answer 13

conflict

Question 14

The closer I get to what I want the more I want it

Answer 14

Gradient of Approach

Question 15

The closer I get the more I want to avoid it. Stronger of the two.

Answer 15

Gradient of Avoidance

Question 16

I want to approach something but want to avoid it as well

Answer 16

Approach-Avoidance Conflict

Question 17

Must chose between two goals/outcomes, neither of which are desirable

Answer 17

Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict

Question 18

Chose between two desired goals

Answer 18

Approach-Approach Conflict

Question 19

a person much choose between two goals, both of which have pros and cons

Answer 19

Double Approach-Avoidance Conflict

Question 20

Hypothesis that frustration always leads to aggression and aggression is always caused by frustration

Answer 20

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Question 21

Occurring when obstacles interfere with drive reduction

Answer 21

Frustration

Question 22

Behavior intended to injure the person toward whom it is directed

Answer 22

Aggression

Question 23

aggression is only one possible response to frustration and that its position in the response hierarchy depends on past experience

Answer 23

Learning responses to frustration

Question 24

direct aggression toward another target besides the source of frustration
(kick the tires of the bus instead of the bus driver)

Answer 24

Displacement and Catharsis

Question 25

primary goal is to injure someone

Answer 25

Hostile aggression

Question 26

primary goal is to obtain something, someone gets in your way.

Answer 26

Instrumental Aggression

Question 27

violent games, movies, guns

Answer 27

Aggressive Cues

Question 28

therapy requires drive reduction and encouraging patients to stay in conflictful situations rather than avoid them.

Answer 28

Dollar and Miller’s take on psychotherapy

Question 29

willfully putting thoughts out of consciousness

Answer 29

Suppression