Question 1

The tendency for many people to smoke while waiting in traffic can be viewed as an example of _________ behavior in humans.

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Question 2

An excessive pattern of behavior that emerges as a by-product of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement for some other behavior is called _________ behavior.

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Question 3

A class of brain chemicals that may play a particularly important role in the development of anorexia in both rats and humans is _________. Evidence for this includes the fact that people suffering from anorexia often report that the feeling that accompanies the disorder is quite _________.

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Question 4

Define taste aversion conditioning, and diagram an experimental example.

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Question 5

Describe two examples of the role of preparedness in operant conditioning.

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Question 6

An abnormally high level of _________ can be generated by restricting an individual's access to food.

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Question 7

A pigeon's tendency to peck at a key light that has been paired with the noncontingent delivery of food is known as _________.

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Question 8

For the development of adjunctive behaviors, the optimal interval between the delivery of reinforcers is often about _________ minutes.

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Question 9

Adjunctive behavior is also known as _________ behavior.

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Question 10

An innate tendency to more readily associate certain types of stimuli with each other is a type of preparedness that is known as _________.

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Question 11

Outline three ways in which taste aversion conditioning differs from other forms of classical conditioning.

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Question 12

Taste aversion conditioning occurs less readily to the _________ -tasting food item in a meal than to the _________-tasting item in the meal. This can be seen as an example of the _________ effect in classical conditioning.

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Question 13

_________ behaviors can serve to enhance self-control when they facilitate the act of waiting for a delayed reinforcer.

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Question 14

When a pig earns reinforcers for carrying a napkin from one table to another, it eventually starts dropping it and rooting at it on the ground. This scenario is an example of _________ in which a _________ pattern gradually emerges and replaces the operant behavior that one is attempting to condition.

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Question 15

The activity anorexia model suggests that behavioral treatments for anorexia nervosa should focus as much on establishing normal patterns of _________ as they do on establishing normal patterns of eating.

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Question 16

Define preparedness and CS-US relevance.

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Question 17

Paul became quite nauseated after eating a novel food item along with a more familiar food item. In keeping with the principle of _________ inhibition, he is most likely to form a taste aversion to the _________ food item.

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Question 18

From an evolutionary perspective, a tendency toward activity anorexia could _________ the likelihood of an animal encountering a new food supply. Indirect evidence for this includes the fact that the activity anorexia cycle can often be _________ by suddenly presenting the animal with a continuous supply of food.

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Question 19

The phenomenon of negative _________ explains why a pigeon will compulsively peck at a key light that precedes the delivery of food even though the key peck prevents the delivery of food.

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Question 20

Describe (or diagram) the results of the full experiment by Garcia and Koelling (1966) that illustrate the role of biological preparedness in classical conditioning.

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Quiz 12: Biological Dispositions in Learning