Part 8: TEST YOURSELF

TEST
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SELF LEARNING

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don’t know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.

Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning

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1. Learning is defined as “the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring or .”

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2. Two forms of associative learning are classical conditioning, in which the organism associates ________, and operant conditioning, in which the organism associates ________.

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3. In Pavlov’s experiments, the tone started as a neutral stimulus, and then became a(n) stimulus.

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4. Dogs have been taught to salivate to a circle but not to a square. This process is an example of .

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5. After Watson and Rayner classically conditioned Little Albert to fear a white rat, the child later showed fear in response to a rabbit, a dog, and a sealskin coat. This illustrates

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6. “Sex sells!” is a common saying in advertising. Using classical conditioning terms, explain how sexual images in advertisements can condition your response to a product.

Answer: A sexual image is a US that triggers a UR of interest or arousal. Before the advertisement pairs a product with a sexual image, the product is an NS. Over time the product can become a CS that triggers the CR of interest or arousal.

Operant Conditioning

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7. Thorndike’s law of effect was the basis for work on operant conditioning and behavior control.

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8. One way to change behavior is to reward natural behaviors in small steps, as the organism gets closer and closer to a desired behavior. This process is called .

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9. Your dog is barking so loudly that it’s making your ears ring. You clap your hands, the dog stops barking, your ears stop ringing, and you think to yourself, “I’ll have to do that when he barks again.” The end of the barking was for you a

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10. How could your psychology instructor use negative reinforcement to encourage your attentive behavior during class?

Answer: Your instructor could reinforce your attentive behavior by taking away something you dislike. For example, your instructor could offer to shorten the length of an assigned paper or replace lecture time with an in-class activity. In both cases, the instructor would remove something aversive in order to negatively reinforce your focused attention.

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11. Reinforcing a desired response only some of the times it occurs is called reinforcement.

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12. A restaurant is running a special deal. After you buy four meals at full price, your fifth meal will be free. This is an example of a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

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13. The partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after unpredictable time periods is a - schedule.

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14. A medieval proverb notes that “a burnt child dreads the fire.” In operant conditioning, the burning would be an example of a

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Biology, Cognition, and Learning

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15. Garcia and Koelling’s - studies showed that conditioning can occur even when the unconditioned stimulus (US) does not immediately follow the neutral stimulus (NS).

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16. Taste-aversion research has shown that some animals develop aversions to certain tastes but not to sights or sounds. What evolutionary psychology finding does this support?

Answer: This finding supports Darwin’s principle that natural selection favors traits that aid survival.

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17. Evidence that cognitive processes play an important role in learning comes in part from studies in which rats

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18. Rats that explored a maze without any reward were later able to run the maze as well as other rats that had received food rewards for running the maze. The rats that had learned without reinforcement demonstrated .

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19. Children learn many social behaviors by imitating parents and other models. This type of learning is called .

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20. According to Bandura, we learn by watching models because we experience reinforcement or punishment.

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21. Parents are most effective in getting their children to imitate them if

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22. Some scientists believe that the brain has neurons that enable empathy and imitation.

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23. Most experts agree that repeated viewing of media violence

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