continued ch.7

Question 1

shaping

Answer 1

rewarding behaviors that come closer and closer to a target behavior ex: getting animals to perform hard tasks

Question 2

applications of operant conditioning

Answer 2

applied behavior analysis and autism

Question 3

limitations

Answer 3

behaviorists thought that all learning resulted from reinforcement or punishment

Question 4

BUT what’s reinforcing depends on the individual

Answer 4

Stimulus -> organism -> response

Question 5

BUT learning often occurs without

Answer 5

R or P latent learning or insight learning

Question 6

observational learning

Answer 6

learning by watching others ex: kids banduras “bobo doll” experiment (1961)

Question 7

Do children learn aggression by watching aggression?

Answer 7

preschool children watched actors behave aggressively toward a “bobo doll” then played with bobo themselves aggressively

Question 8

bobo doll

Answer 8

kids kept hitting doll and kicking it wouldn’t fall down, held fake gun

Question 9

biological influences on learning

Answer 9

taste aversion

Question 10

taste aversion

Answer 10

a conditioned disgust reflex to certain foods after sickness ex: food poisoning

Question 11

taste aversion needs only

Answer 11

pairing of ucs and cs they both are widely separated in time

Question 12

taste aversion can be

Answer 12

extremely specific resistant to generalization

Question 13

taste aversion is usually with

Answer 13

cancer treatment

Question 14

since chemo induced nausea and vomiting

Answer 14

many develop food aversions like a “scapegoat” food before treatment to avoid not liking the food after chemo