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Which statement is TRUE about spontaneous recovery?


A) Spontaneous recovery can happen long after the response has been extinguished.
B) Spontaneous recovery suggests that the organism has forgotten about the connection between the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.
C) Spontaneous recovery only occurs with the robust associations of taste aversion.
D) Spontaneous recovery means that the response has not been extinguished.

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Identify the four different types of partial reinforcement and provide a real-world example of each.

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Partial reinforcement: A schedule of rei...

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Xiao-ping has learned that if she whines to her mother, she will get candy. Based on this experience, Xiao-ping starts whining to her father, too, in hopes of getting candy. Xiao-ping is illustrating ____.


A) shaping
B) discrimination
C) generalization
D) latent learning

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A squirrel is scurrying around hunting for acorns. Every once in a while, it pauses to look around before resuming its quest. Describe the squirrel's behavior in terms of orientation and habituation.

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Sounds and sights periodically catch the...

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Yanna used to date a man who wore a lime-scented aftershave. Yanna was very attracted to this man, and now when she smells the scent of lime, she finds herself feeling slightly aroused. In this example, the man Yanna used to date is the ____.


A) US
B) CS
C) UR
D) CR

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Michele is completely frustrated by Felicia, her three-year-old, who loves to pound on pots and pans with a wooden spoon. Michele has yelled at Felicia with no effect. A friend suggested ignoring Felicia, as perhaps Michele's attention was helping to reinforce Felicia's behavior. Michele tried her friend's advice, but Felicia just made more noise. From an operant perspective, how would you interpret what happened?

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It sounds like Michele encountered an ex...

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The genetic tendency to learn certain responses very easily is called ____.


A) acquisition
B) physiological cognition
C) biological conditioning
D) biological preparedness

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At first, Sally thought it was funny when her five-year-old used bad language, and she would laugh despite herself. However, Sally soon realized that she was encouraging this behavior, and she stopped laughing when her child used inappropriate language. But to her dismay, as soon as Sally decided not to laugh anymore, the child began to use bad language more often before she finally stopped using it. What best explains why the child's inappropriate behavior increased temporarily?


A) Habituation
B) Re-acquisition of the response
C) An extinction burst
D) Spontaneous recovery

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Compared to other classically conditioned responses, taste aversions are unique in that ____.


A) the time interval between the US and the UR can be very long
B) the time interval between the US and the NS is quite short
C) they often occur after only a single pairing of the NS and the US
D) an above average number of pairings are needed

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Felicia has learned that if she washes the dishes her roommate, Millie, will stop nagging her about them. Millie is using ____.


A) positive reinforcement
B) negative reinforcement
C) positive punishment
D) negative punishment

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What is an example of an orienting reflex?


A) While standing in line at the cafeteria, you turn around to see who poked you in the back.
B) While watching a movie at the local theater, you reach for another handful of popcorn from your date's bucket of popcorn.
C) While watching a horror movie on TV, you yell at some of the characters, telling them not to open the door.
D) While looking for a book in the library, you get lost and have to refer to a map.

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What do Albert Bandura, Wolfgang Kohler, and Edward Tolman all have in common?


A) They are all strong advocates of the principles involved in operant conditioning.
B) They all believe strongly in the views of strict behaviorism.
C) They all have shown that latent learning is not a valid concept.
D) They all have conducted research demonstrating the importance to cognition in learning.

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Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a table tennis ball to his roommate's head. He decides to continue his experiment with classical conditioning and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair across the floor. At first Lloyd cringes at the new squeak, but with continued "trials" in which the drawer squeak is paired with a table tennis ball to the head but the chair squeak is not, Lloyd stops cringing to the chair squeak, illustrating ____.


A) habituation
B) dishabituation
C) discrimination
D) generalization

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The neutral stimulus in Pavlov's original studies was ____.


A) the meat
B) salivation
C) digestion
D) the buzzer

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Reznick is coaching baseball with some eight-year-olds. He is working with the catchers on learning to get closer to the batter, but they are afraid of getting hit with the bat. Using social learning techniques, how can you help Reznick?

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Carolyn is training her new puppy Ollie using a method called clicker training. The first step is to click a clicker and give Ollie a treat. In this case, the unconditioned stimulus is ____.


A) the treat
B) Carolyn
C) Ollie
D) the clicker

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Which statement is TRUE regarding acquisition and extinction?


A) These terms apply to classical conditioning but not to operant conditioning.
B) These terms apply to operant conditioning but not to classical conditioning.
C) Acquisition applies to operant conditioning and extinction apples to classical conditioning.
D) Both terms apply to both classical and operant conditioning.

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All examples of classical conditioning begin with a preexisting relationship between the ____.


A) unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus
B) conditioned stimulus and the neutral stimulus
C) unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response
D) conditioned stimulus and a conditioned response

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Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a table tennis ball to his roommate's head. He decides to continue his classical conditioning experiment and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair across the floor. At first, Lloyd cringes at the new squeak, illustrating ____.


A) habituation
B) dishabituation
C) discrimination
D) generalization

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Don wants to classically condition his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe whenever Don opens the squeaky drawer on his desk. To do this, Don decides to wait until his Lloyd is studying. Don will open the drawer and then toss a table tennis ball toward his roommate's head. Don knows it is important to coordinate the squeaking from the drawer and tossing the ball so they are close together in time. Don is concerned about ____.


A) consequences
B) contiguity
C) contingency
D) confluence

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