Learning

Dylan’s mother buys him a new hat before they go on a family fishing trip. On the boat, Dylan gets nauseated and vomits. The next day he feels nausea when simply looking at the hat. The hat has become:

• an unconditioned stimulus

• a conditioned stimulus

• a conditioned response

• an unconditioned response

In the Little Albert experiment, the unconditioned stimulus (US) was the

• loud noise

• fear

• rat

• mother

The conditioned response (CR) is the usually the same as the

• CS
• US
• UR
• CR

In the Little Albert experiment, the conditioned response (CR) was the

• rat

• fear

• mother

• loud noise

In classical conditioning, the UR

• happens after the CR

• is the response to the CS.

• is the response to the US

• triggers the US to occur

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

• clapping after a thrilling concert performance
• jumping rope
• running through a maze to get a food reward
• sweating in hot weather

Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n)

• unconditioned stimulus
• neutral stimulus 
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned response

Jesse ate a cheeseburger from a fast food restaurant for dinner, and he was awake all night feeling sick. Now, just thinking about eating any fast food makes him feel nauseated, and he is certain that he will never want to eat it again. Jesse's aversion to fast food can be explained by

• shaping

• extinction

• spontaneous recovery

• stimulus generalization

• latent learning

The "Little Albert" study demonstrated that

• humans can learn through observation

• biological constraints affect learning in humans

• fear can be conditioned in humans

• punishment can effectively decrease behavior in humans

• learning in humans is fundamentally different from learning in other species

Which of these is the best example of learning?

• A dog salivates when food is placed in his mouth.

• A honeybee stings when the hive is threatened.

• A child cries when his brother hits him.

• A child feels ill after drinking sour milk.

• A child flinches when he sees lightning, because he is afraid of thunder.