Question 1

You have successfully conditioned your dog to come running to the sound of the can opener after repeated associations with his evening meal.In order to extinguish this behavior,you will need to stop pairing the ____________ with his dog food.

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Question 2

You are carrying a heavy load of books in your arms.As you get to the car,you struggle to get your keys from your pocket to unlock the car and drop the books on your foot.The result is a broken toe.Soon after,you buy yourself a backpack.In this example,explain what type of conditioning occurred when you dropped the book.Next,explain what type of conditioning is occurring when you use your backpack.

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Question 3

Avoidance responses can be extinguished rapidly using a technique called ____________.

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Question 4

In using punishment,it is important to punish ____________ not people.

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Question 5

If you learn to react differently when your smoke detector goes off versus when your carbon monoxide detector goes off,you have learned ____________.

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Question 6

Write about two practical applications of taste aversions.You may use examples from your text or develop your own examples.

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Question 7

The sudden realization of previously unseen relationships is called ____________ learning.

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Question 8

Research has suggested that the loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be caused by a(n)__________.

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Question 9

Explain the suggestion that "phobias are initially classically conditioned but are maintained over time through avoidance conditioning." Use an example to illustrate.

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Question 10

If you accidentally associate a random behavior with an event that follows the behavior,you may develop a ____________.

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Question 11

Your 2-year-old son calls all animals with four legs "doggies." Your child is using ____________.

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Question 12

While playing in the backyard one day,the neighbor's dog wandered over.Your playmate,who has a tremendous fear of dogs,let out a bloodcurdling scream,yanked you cruelly by the arm,and dragged you into the house.You no longer want to go outside to play because you are afraid of the "neighbor's dog." In this example,discuss the conditioning process that has taken place and identify each of the elements in the process.

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Question 13

The fact that we develop phobias to stimuli that have some intrinsic association with danger supports the idea of ____________ preparedness.

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Question 14

A parent wants to reinforce her child for brushing her teeth all by herself.Describe the four types of reinforcement schedules,other than continuous reinforcement,that the parent could use,and give an example of how the parent could use each.

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Question 15

Rats who were not reinforced in the initial trials of an experiment showed rapid improvement in performance when rewards were later introduced.This observation is used to help explain ____________.

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Question 16

A(n)____________ is an inferred mental representation of a physical space.

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Question 17

Responses learned through variable ratio and variable interval schedules of reinforcement are more difficult to extinguish than are responses learned through continuous reinforcement in a phenomenon known as ____________.

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Quiz 7: Basic Principles of Learning