UNIT 4 - Learning

Front

Latent learning is evidence for which of these conclusions?

Back

Cognition plays an important role in operant conditioning.

Front

Which of the following is the best example of learning? A child feels ill after drinking sour milk. A dog salivates when food is placed in its mouth. A honeybee stings when the hive is threatened. A child flinches when he sees lightning because he is afraid of thunder.

Back

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

Front

Which of the following most accurately describes an impact of punishment?

Back

Punishment can be effective at stopping specific behaviors quickly.

Front

Which of the following is an application of shaping? A mother who wants her daughter to hit a baseball first praises her for holding a bat, then for swinging it, and then for hitting the ball.

Back

A mother who wants her daughter to hit a baseball first praises her for holding a bat, then for swinging it, and then for hitting the ball.

Front

Which of the following is the best advice to give parents whose young children refuse to eat their dinner?
Options:
Do not allow them to watch television for a week for each day they do not eat dinner.
Require that the children do extra chores if they do not finish dinner.
Give the children a small reward each day that they eat their dinner.
Allow the children to have dessert, even if they do not eat their dinner, in the hopes that they will eat dinner the next day.

Back

Give the children a small reward each day that they eat their dinner.

Front

The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished response is called

Back

Spontaneous recovery

Front

Which of the following is the most likely consequence of the brain’s tendency to vicariously experience something we observe? Options: The risk of misremembering our own actions, A confusion between reinforcers and rewards in an operant conditioning setting, Interference with associative learning, The elimination of classically conditioned responses to stimuli

Back

The risk of misremembering our own actions

Front

When is prosocial modeling most effective?

Back

When the model acts in a way consistent with the prosocial lesson

Front

Which of the following best describes negative reinforcement? Osel wears his seat belt because his driving teacher cited accident statistics in class, John stops shooting bad free-throws because his coach benches him when he does, Charles smokes because his anxiety is reduced when he does so, Lillian used to walk to school but does not do so anymore because she was attacked by a dog last month

Back

Charles smokes because his anxiety is reduced when he does so

Front

Which of the following processes is the best term for explaining how we learn languages? Modeling, Biofeedback, Discrimination, Creativity

Back

Modeling