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Question 41

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Marcella starts whining in the grocery store because she wants some candy.Her father refuses to give her candy and ignores her whining.What will happen?

A) generalization
B) extinction
C) spontaneous recovery
D) discrimination

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Question 42

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Which of the following statements about learning is NOT true?

A) Learning is another word for maturation.
B) Learning is relatively permanent.
C) Learning involves changes in behaviour.
D) Learning involves experiences.

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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The first time José sees a cat,his mother tells him,"That's a cat.Can you say cat?" He repeats the word gleefully,and his mother praises him.The next day,he is watching a cartoon and sees a tiger on the television.He points at the tiger and says,"Cat!" This is an example of:

Rescorla found that the CS must ______________ the UCS for conditioning to take place.

There are two kinds of behaviour that all organisms are capable of doing.If Inez blinks her eyes because a gnat flies close to them,that's _____________.But if she then swats at the gnat,that's _____________.

A young boy is watching TV.In one show he sees a bully steal a lunch from another child.The bully then enjoys eating the other child's lunch.Because this boy feels that his mother makes him a rather skimpy lunch and he is always hungry at school,he starts stealing other kids' lunches at school.According to Bandura's theory,the boy's hunger at lunchtime relates to the ______ element of the observational learning process.

The "aha!" experience is known as:

Your parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti.Later,the parakeet gets ill.What would the research on biological preparedness predict?

For observational learning to occur,each of the following must happen EXCEPT:

You need to remove a broken light bulb from a lamp.Without a pair of gloves,you are likely to cut yourself on the jagged glass.Suddenly,it occurs to you that you can use a cut potato to remove the light bulb from the socket.You have just demonstrated:

Mary's parents want her to put her books in her bookcase.At first,they praise her for putting the books together in one pile.Then they praise her for getting the books on the same side of the room as the bookcase.When she gets the books on top of the bookcase,she gets praise.Finally,her parents praise her when she puts her books in the bookcase.This is an example of:

Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called:

Maricella works in a sweatshop as a seamstress.Her boss tells her that every time she completes five shirts,she will receive $5.When done with the five shirts,she dumps them into a bin and gets paid.Her pattern of shirt completion is most likely to be:

Conditioned taste aversions are an example of something called:

Karawynn Long attempted to toilet train her cat.The principle of learning that was in operation was:

Applied behaviour analysis:

A child is wetting his or her bed.According to our textbook,punishing the child would be the best way to permanently stop this behaviour.You would recommend that the child be given no food on the day after a bedwetting incident.You are doing this because negative punishment is guaranteed to stop bad behaviours.

In operant conditioning,_____________ is/are necessary to create the association between the stimulus and the voluntary response.

A mother tells a young child that when her father comes home,he will spank her because she was behaved badly.All of the following statements are possible outcomes of punishment EXCEPT:

When faced with new problems,college students who have experienced prior unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half-hearted attempts to solve the new problems,even when these problems can be solved.This behaviour is probably due to: