Chapter 6

Question 1

When you learned how to play basketball by watching your coach, who learned by watching their coach, who learned by watching their coach… this is an example of

Answer 1

Diffusion Chain

Question 2

Whitney is watching a horror movie and notices that when the tense music comes on she begins to get tense and then when the music comes on she begins to get tense and then when the murderer jumps out her fear response is much stronger

Answer 2

Sensitization

Question 3

What is unique about tasting aversion?
A) it can occur after only one trial
B) it is less biologically predisposed to
C) the duration // it lasts a long time
All of these
A & C
A & B

Answer 3

A & C

Question 4

Identify if the following are primary or secondary reinforcers
Sex ____
Money ____
Sleep ____
Food ____

Answer 4

Primary
Secondary
Primary
Primary

Question 5

Children who watched adults abuse a Bo-Bo doll were more likely to use guns against a similar doll

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The 4 characteristics of a model that increase the likelihood of attention

Answer 6

Similarity // attractive // likable // prestigious

Question 7

James has an evil friend who has conditioned him to salivate at the smell of McDonald’s. However, the other day he drove by a Wendy’s and started salivating. What is happening?

Answer 7

Stimulus generalization

Question 8

Sharon is picking her nose. After about 10 minutes of trying to get the booger she finally gets it. But as she is trying to pull it out she discovers it really hurts. Once she get is, she quickly moves onto the left nostril.

Answer 8

Positive Reinforcement

Question 9

You love going to Sip it Soda Shack. Not only do they have the best drinks, but they give you a punch card so that every time you get a drink you get a punch. After 12 punches you get a free drink. This is what schedule?

Answer 9

Fixed ratio

Question 10

You love listening to Taylor Swift. One day she comes to visit you personally. You discover that she is arrogant and annoying, so you stop listening to her music.

Answer 10

Positive punishment

Question 11

Duck and cover=
Volkswagen before training=
Loud sound of Grenade=
Volkswagen after training

Answer 11

CR
NS
US
CS

Question 12

Your book describes classical conditioning as your brain trying to predict contingencies. Which neurotransmitter helps the most with this?

Answer 12

Dopamine

Question 13

Little Johnny is in School. He is kind of a trouble maker. One day he acts out in class and the teacher wants to punish him so he won’t do it any more. To be effective she should make sure she does three things’ they are:

Answer 13

Severe // Swift // Salient

Question 14

According to Albert B, what are the main processes involved in observational learning?

Answer 14

Attention // retention // motor reproduction // motivation

Question 15

Correctly identify which of the following are drawbacks to punishment

Suzie did not clean her room. She knows she will get yelled at when she goes home, so she goes to a friends house: ____
Hope gets punished all the time because her parents are highly punitive. She has got to the where she doesn’t care, and doesn’t even pay attention: ____
Victor decides to ignore his parents warnings about riding his motorcycle and breaks his arm: ___

Answer 15

Avoidance & Escape

Apathy

Not a drawback

Question 16

When conditioning yourself, you found that if your friend blew an air-horn right next to your ear you conditioned much faster than if he did it from another room. This would be because of:

Answer 16

Intensity

Question 17

What is the US & CS in this example

If you loved eating at a drive through restaurant that had one of those hoses that “ding” when you run over it to let the staff know there is a car at the window. You may eventually start salivating at the sound of the ding.

Answer 17

US = food
CS = ding

Question 18

You decide to do an evil fundraiser at your school. During all of the breaks between classes, before school, at lunch, and after school you have the office play “baby shark” over and over and over again via the intercom. The only way the student body can get this to stop is to donate a specific amount of money. This uses:

Answer 18

Negative reinforcement

Question 19

If you were a pretty intense coffee drinker and then decided to quit… after a while of not having the coffee smell in your life the response of the smell would weaken. This is called _____ but if one day you fell of the wagon and drank your favorite coffee again the response would back just as strong as ever. This is ____

Answer 19

Extinction

Spontaneous Recovery