Question 1

Darrel was dancing with his new girlfriend at an Elvis tribute.When the band started playing Can't Help Falling in Love with You, his girlfriend gave him a long passionate kiss, which Darrel found very enjoyable.Now Darrel finds that every time he hears Can't Help Falling in Love with You on the radio, he becomes mildly excited.In this example, the long, passionate kiss is

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A)   a conditioned stimulus.
B)   an unconditioned response.
C)   a conditioned response.
D)   an unconditioned stimulus.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 2

Food would be considered a(n) ____________________ reinforcer, while money would be considered a(n) ____________________ reinforcer.

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The answer of Food would be considered a(n) ____________________ reinforcer,...

Question 3

Pavlov became interested in conditioning when he observed laboratory dogs

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A)   salivating right before food was placed in their mouths.
B)   failing to salivate when food was placed in their mouths.
C)   salivating only when food was placed in their mouths.
D)   salivating right after they had swallowed food.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 4

A student who studies in order to earn high grades is working for ____; a student who studies in order to avoid low grades is working for ____.

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A)   negative reinforcement; positive reinforcement
B)   positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement
C)   negative reinforcement; negative reinforcement
D)   positive reinforcement; positive reinforcementE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 5

Food is an example of ____; praise is an example of ____.

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A)   a primary reinforcer; a primary reinforcer
B)   a primary reinforcer; a secondary reinforcer
C)   a secondary reinforcer; a secondary reinforcer
D)   a secondary reinforcer; a primary reinforcerE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

A pigeon learns to peck at a disc lighted green to receive reinforcement, but not at a disc lighted red.This means that, for the pigeon, the colour of the disc is a

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A)   reinforcer or nonreinforcer
B)   punisher or nonpunisher
C)   generalisation stimulus
D)   discriminative stimulusE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 7

The type of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences is

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A)   observational learning.
B)   classical conditioning.
C)   operant conditioning.
D)   reinforcement.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 8

Bert used to go to his health club every day after work because he almost always saw Abigail there.For two full weeks Abigail wasn't at the club when Bert went there for his workout, and now Bert has stopped going to his health club.This example illustrates the operant conditioning process of

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A)   extinction.
B)   punishment.
C)   avoidance.
D)   resistance.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 9

In classical conditioning a conditioned association is formed between a previously neutral, conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The gradual disappearance of an operant response that is no longer being reinforced is called

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A)   extinction.
B)   unconditioning.
C)   conditioned forgetting.
D)   spontaneous remission.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Classical conditioning could account for how a child learns to

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A)   talk.
B)   play baseball.
C)   walk.
D)   love the smell of her father's aftershave.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

The learning theory that is best able to explain why physical punishment tends to increase aggressive behaviour in children is

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A)   Skinner's theory of operant conditioning.
B)   Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning.
C)   Bandura's theory of observational learning.
D)   Rescorla's theory of signal relations.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 13

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which

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A)   responses come to be controlled by their consequences.
B)   an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others' behaviour.
C)   involuntary responses are slowly replaced by voluntary responses.
D)   a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a response that was originally elicited by another stimulus.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 14

When a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus, the process is

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A)   operant conditioning.
B)   primary reinforcement.
C)   Skinnerian conditioning.
D)   classical conditioning.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 15

A conditioned stimulus is

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A)   a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
B)   an unlearned reaction that occurs without previous conditioning.
C)   a previously neutral stimulus that, through conditioning, acquires the capacity to elicit a conditioned response.
D)   a learned reaction that occurs because of previous conditioning.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Anthony classically conditioned his cat to purr whenever the phone rang.One day, the phone rang for nearly two hours straight when Anthony wasn't home, and the cat's conditioned purring response underwent extinction.Today, the response has spontaneously recovered, but if the conditioned purring response were to undergo extinction again Anthony should expect that it will

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A)   take less time to extinguish than it took for the original extinction.
B)   take more time to extinguish than it took for the original extinction.
C)   take the same amount of time to extinguish as it took for the original extinction.
D)   be impossible to extinguish the response now that spontaneous recovery has occurred.E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 17

Learning theorists argue that learning takes place through conditioning.Describe the two types of conditioning discussed in your text.

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Question 18

Charity used to really enjoy potato salad, and at a family reunion she ate a large helping.Unfortunately, the potato salad had not been kept cold, and Charity became quite ill after eating it.Now she finds that even the sight of potatoes in the grocery store can make her feel sick to her stomach.In this example, the sick feeling Charity experiences when she sees potatoes in the grocery store is

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A)   an unconditioned response.
B)   a conditioned response.
C)   an unconditioned stimulus.
D)   a conditioned stimulus.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 19

Many people find it hard to "walk away from" or stop playing a slot machine.This is because slot machines reward playing on a ____ schedule.

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A)   fixed ratio
B)   variable ratio
C)   fixed interval
D)   variable intervalE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 20

Negative reinforcement and punishment are similar in that they both weaken the tendency of the organism to make a response.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Conditioning and Learning

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Classical conditioning could account for how a child learns to

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A pigeon learns to peck at a disc lighted green to receive reinforcement, but not at a disc lighted red.This means that, for the pigeon, the colour of the disc is a

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Negative reinforcement and punishment are similar in that they both weaken the tendency of the organism to make a response.

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