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Miranda notices that her cat salivates as soon as her cat hears the sound of the electric can opener.In this example,the sound of the can opener is the:


A) primary stimulus.
B) positive reinforcer.
C) conditioned stimulus.
D) secondary reinforcer.

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A primary reinforcer is a stimulus that is reinforcing due to ________; a secondary reinforcer is a stimulus that is reinforcing due to _____________.


A) a learned association with something good; innate properties
B) innate properties; a learned past association with primary reinforcers
C) operant conditioning; classical conditioning
D) classical conditioning; operant conditioning

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When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.The salivation was a/an:


A) unconditioned response.
B) unconditioned stimulus.
C) conditioned response.
D) conditioned stimulus.

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When shaping behaviour,behaviours are ordered and rewarded in smaller steps until the desired response or goal is reached.These smaller step behaviours are called:


A) primary reinforcers.
B) successive approximations.
C) secondary reinforcers.
D) unconditioned stimuli.

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A discriminative stimulus is best described as:


A) a stimulus that provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement.
B) as any object,event,or experience that causes a response,or a reaction of an organism.
C) a stimulus that cues the person about which schedule of reinforcement is being used in operant conditioning.
D) the stimulus that Watson used to make Little Albert scared of all fuzzy things.

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In an experiment,two groups of dogs are given shocks to their feet.One group is able to escape the shocks by jumping over a barrier.The second group is harnessed and cannot escape.After several trials,both groups are put in situations where they CAN escape.The first group escapes the shocks,but the second group just sits and whines,refusing to attempt to escape.The response of the second group is due to:


A) learned helplessness.
B) failure to form a cognitive map.
C) latent learning.
D) lack of insight.

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All of the following processes occur in both operant conditioning and classical conditioning EXCEPT:


A) extinction.
B) spontaneous recovery.
C) generalization.
D) imitation.

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The tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus is called:


A) stimulus generalization.
B) stimulus adaptation.
C) response generalization.
D) transference.

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Normally,when food is placed in the mouth of any animal,the salivary glands start releasing saliva to help with chewing and digestion.In terms of Pavlov's analysis of learning,salivation would be referred to as a/an:


A) unconditioned response.
B) behaviour.
C) conditioned response.
D) stimulus for digestion.

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Which is the most important characteristic of a food that is linked to a conditioned taste aversion for birds?


A) taste
B) smell
C) vision
D) touch

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Who was the one of the first researchers to explore and outline the laws of voluntary responses?


A) Pavlov
B) Watson
C) Skinner
D) Thorndike

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You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.You sound the bell and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit.You do this several times but no conditioning seems to occur.This is probably because:


A) the bell was not a distinctive sound.
B) the bell should have been sounded after the animal ate the biscuit.
C) you should have had an even longer interval between the bell and the biscuit.
D) the biscuit was given too long after the sound of the bell.

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The partial reinforcement effect refers to the fact that a response that is reinforced after some,but not all,correct responses:


A) will be more resistant to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) .
B) will be less resistant to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) .
C) will be more variable in its resistance to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) .
D) will be totally resistant to extinction unlike a response that receives continuous

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Similarity is the tendency to perceive:


A) objects,or figures,on some background.
B) things that look similar as being part of the same group.
C) objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping.
D) things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex,broken-up pattern.

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What was the conditioned stimulus (CS) in the case of Little Albert?


A) a rat
B) a loud noise
C) a mask
D) the experimenter's face

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Which of the following is NOT an example of operant behaviour?


A) a child doing her homework after she receives her teacher's approval for her behaviour
B) a rat pressing a bar after receiving food for this behaviour
C) a dog blinking its eyes after a flash of light is presented
D) a rat pressing a bar after avoiding a shock for this behaviour

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Your pet parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti noodles.Later the poor bird gets very ill.What would the research on biological preparedness predict?


A) The parakeet will probably not eat shell macaroni because it smells similar to spaghetti.
B) The parakeet will probably not eat shell macaroni because it tastes similar to spaghetti.
C) The parakeet will probably not eat linguini noodles because they are long and thin and look similar to spaghetti.
D) The parakeet will eat spaghetti again.

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The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is:


A) Thorndike.
B) Tolman.
C) Seligman.
D) Bandura.

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A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on:


A) classical conditioning.
B) operant conditioning.
C) primary and secondary learning.
D) cognitive learning.

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When we see a stop sign,we are cued to take a certain action: we stop.What type of stimulus is a stop sign?


A) an extinction stimulus
B) a discriminative stimulus
C) a shaping stimulus
D) a fixed stimulus

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