Learning Review

You always rattle the box of dog biscuits, before giving your dog a treat. As you do so, your dog salivates. Rattling the box is a ____; your dog's salivation is a _____.

• CS; CR

• CS: UR

• US; CR

• US; UR

Jack finally takes out the garbage in order to get his father to stop pestering him. Jack's behavior is being influenced by

• positive reinforcement.

• negative reinforcement.

• a primary reinforcer.

• punishment.

Mrs. Ramirez often tells her children that it is important to buckle their seat belts while riding in the car, but she rarely does so herself. Her children will probably learn to

• use their seat belts and tell others it is important to do so.

• use their seat belts but not tell others it is important to do so.

• tell others it is important to use seat belts but rarely use them themselves.

• neither tell others that seat belts are important nor use them.

Identify the CS: "As a child, you were playing in the yard one day when a neighbor's cat wander over. Your mother (who has a terrible fear of animals) screamed and snatched you into her arms. Her behavior caused you to cry. You now have a fear of cats.

• your mother's behavior

• your crying

• the cat

• your fear today

Identify the US: "As a child, you were playing in the yard one day when a neighbor's cat wander over. Your mother (who has a terrible fear of animals) screamed and snatched you into her arms. Her behavior caused you to cry. You now have a fear of cats.

• your mother's behavior

• your crying

• the cat

• your fear today

Identify the CR: "As a child, you were playing in the yard one day when a neighbor's cat wander over. Your mother (who has a terrible fear of animals) screamed and snatched you into her arms. Her behavior caused you to cry. You now have a fear of cats.

• your mother's behavior

• your crying

• the cat

• your fear today

Identify the UR: "As a child, you were playing in the yard one day when a neighbor's cat wander over. Your mother (who has a terrible fear of animals) screamed and snatched you into her arms. Her behavior caused you to cry. You now have a fear of cats.

• your mother's behavior

• your crying

• the cat

• your fear today

After watching coverage of the Olympics on television recently, Lynn and Susan have been staging their own "summer games." Which of the following best accounts for their behavior?

• classical conditioning

• observational learning

• latent learning

• shaping

Last evening May-ling ate her first cheeseburger and french fries at an American fast-food restaurant. A few hours later she became ill. It can be expected that

• May-ling will develop an aversion to the sight of cheeseburger and french fries.

• May-ling will develop an aversion to the taste of cheeseburger and french fries.

• May-ling will not associate her illness with the food she ate.

• May-ling will associate her sickness with something she experience immediately before she became ill.

In the Little Albert experiment (with the rats), the loud noise was the ________ and the white rat was the ______.

• CS; CR

• US; CS

• CS; US

• US; CR