PSY-217 practice quiz ch.10 – Flashcards

Herbert and Harsh compared the behaivor of cats that had observed a model perform an act 30 times with cats that had observed only 15 performances. They found that ___________.

The tendency to imitate modeled behavior even when doing so is not reinforced is called ___________________.

Social observational learning may be defined as _________________.

Keith and Catherine Hayes found that their adoptee, Viki, learned more from observing models than some children of about the same age. This was surprising because Viki was a ____________.

Those who are most likely to learn from observing a model are probably ______________.

Learning is a change in behavior due to experience. In observational learning, the experience consists of __________________.

You hear on the radio that Smash, the most popular rock music performer in Germany, has killed himself. He left a note ("Goodbye, cruel world"). You predict that ________________.

A panel of experts reviewed studies on the influence of violence depicted on television and in films on the aggressive behavior of children. They found that the evidence for a causal connection between viewing such violence and aggressive behavior was ________________.

The first studies of observational learning _______________________.

The first studies of observational learning were performed by _______________.