Basic Learning

Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?

• The cat food
• The sound of the electric can opener
• The cat coming to the kitchen
• Tamara

1. Speed Traps by Police: Police officers set up speed traps on the highway at different times, making it unpredictable when you might get caught for speeding.

• Fixed Ratio

• Variable Ratio

• Fixed Interval

• Variable Interval

What was Ivan Pavlov originally studying when he discovered classical conditioning?

• how dogs' digestive systems work

• how dogs react to bells and food

• how dogs respond to new smells

• how dogs' appetites can be controlled

A group of ranchers attempts to discourage coyotes from attacking their sheep by placing a substance on the wool of the sheep that makes coyotes violently ill if they eat it. Very quickly, the coyotes avoid the sheep entirely. In this scenario, what are the UCS, CS, and CR, respectively?

•  The substance, the sheep’s wool, aversion to the sheep
• The sheep’s wool, the substance, aversion to sheep
• Aversion to sheep, the substance, the sheep’s wool

You were afraid of snakes as a child but then in college you had a roommate with a snake that never bit you and you stopped fearing snakes. This is called _____.

• acquisition

• extinction

• spontaneous recovery

• generalization

• discrimination

Bandura's experiments became known as the ___________ .

• Baby Doll Experiments

• Copy Cat experiments

• Bobo Doll experiments

• Childhood experiments

Bandura's __________ Theory

• Motivational

• Psychosocial

• Cognitive Capacity

• Social Learning

Conducted experiments with rats and mazes to examine the role that reinforcement plays in the way that rats learn their way through complex mazes; led to idea of cognitive maps and latent learning.

• Edward Tolman

• Walter Mischel

• Martin Seligman

• Robert Rescorla

Reinforcement is anything that strengthens or increases the frequency of a preceding response.

• True

• False

Little Albert began to associate any small, fluffy object with the loud sound. What is this describing?

• discrimination

• extinction

• generalization

• counterconditioning