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Articles from
“LEARNING”
Article 1:
Pavlov:
It’s Not Just About
Drooling Dogs
Which “type” What is the biggest take away from this research?
of Learning
(1-2 sentence summary)
does this study
represent?
Do you think it was ethical?
Ethical?
Y or
N
Ethical?
Y or
N
Ethical?
Y or
N
Ethical?
Y or
N
Article 2:
Watson:
Little Emotional Albert
Article 3:
Skinner:
Knock Wood!
Article 4:
Bandura:
See Aggression…Do
Aggression!
What is “associative learning”:
What is “acquisition”:
Explain “counterconditioning”:
Explain taste-aversions:
Through direct experience with animals, we come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp. This best illustrates:
A. the law of effect.
B. spontaneous recovery.
C. respondent behavior.
D. associative learning.
Ivan Pavlov noticed that dogs began salivating at the mere sight of the person who regularly brought food to them. For the dogs, the sight of this
person was a(n):
A. primary reinforcer.
B. unconditional stimulus.
C. immediate reinforcer.
D. conditioned stimulus.
Conditioning seldom occurs when a(n) ________ comes after a(n) _____.
A. CS; US
B. UR; CS
C. secondary reinforcer; operant behavior
D. negative reinforcer; operant behavior
The predictability of an association between a CS and a US facilitates an organism's ability to anticipate the occurrence of the US. This fact is most
likely to be highlighted by a(n) ________ perspective.
A. evolutionary
B. behaviorist
C. cognitive
D. neuroscience
Researchers condition a flatworm to contract when exposed to light by repeatedly pairing the light with electric shock. The electric shock is a(n):
A. negative reinforcer.
B. conditioned stimulus.
C. conditioned reinforcer.
D. unconditioned stimulus.
After getting ill from eating her friend’s Thanksgiving turkey, Natalia couldn’t stand the the sight or smell of turkey. However, when her friend baked a whole
chicken, Natalia thought it sounded good. This illustrates:
A. generalization.
B. discrimination.
C. extinction.
D. acquisition.
Day 3
The law of effect relates most closely to:
A. modeling.
B. operant conditioning.
C. classical conditioning.
D. latent learning.
For some children who bite themselves or bang their heads, squirting water into their faces when they hurt themselves has been observed to decrease
the frequency of these self-abusive behaviors. This best illustrates the potential value of:
A. punishment.
B. conditioned reinforcers.
C. negative reinforcers.
D. latent learning.
Occasional, unpredictable reinforcement usually results in _________ rates of responding.
A. unpredictable
B. steady
C. delayed
D. speedy
Mirror neurons are important to the process of learning because they:
A. enhance cognitive maps.
B. enable imitation.
C. provide a neurological basis for operant conditioning.
D. explain aversive conditioning.