Module 22

Question 1

What is taste aversion?

Answer 1

Conditioning that happens from eating, often only takes one to avoid ever eating that food again

Question 2

What is instinctive drift?

Answer 2

The tendency of learned behavior to drift back towards biologically predisposed patterns

Question 3

What is a cognitive map?

Answer 3

A mental layout of one’s environment

Question 4

What is latent learning?

Answer 4

Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is incentive to demonstrate

Question 5

What is observational learning?

Answer 5

Where higher animals learn without direct experience, but by watching and imitating others. This occurs especially in humans

Question 6

What is observational learning also known as?

Answer 6

Social learning

Question 7

Bandura’s work

Answer 7

Observational learning. The bobo doll experiment, where an adult got angry and fought a bobo doll, the child, when brought into another room with a bobo doll would begin fighting it when angry.

Question 8

What are mirror neurons?

Answer 8

Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions. The brain can fire these neurons when watching another perform the action that would fire those neurons

Question 9

What is pro social behavior?

Answer 9

Positive, constructive, and helpful behavior.

Question 10

What are antisocial effects?

Answer 10

Observational learning can lead to things like aggression in children