Learning module 20 – Flashcards

Although Skinner and other behaviorists did not think that it was necessary to refer to thoughts or expectations when explaining human learning, findings from experiments with rats suggest otherwise. Which finding suggests that cognitive processes are involved in operant learning?

Ever since she drank too much tequila at a rock concert and vomited all over her best friend, Erin becomes nauseous at the smell or taste of tequila. In this example, the conditioned stimulus is _____ and the conditioned response is _____.

Seven-year-old Mark likes to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles every day after school. When the program is over, he meets his friends in his backyard, and they playfully drop kick each other over and over. This eventually leads to real fighting between the children. This is an example of the:

According to the results of series of experiments done by Elliot and Niesta (2008), if a woman wanted to increase her attractiveness to a male she should:

Robert Rescorla's research demonstrated the importance of _____ in classical conditioning.

Psychologist John Garcia found that rats did not learn to associate a taste with flashing lights and noise. However, rats did learn to associate a taste with getting ill. The concept that best accounts for this observation is _____.

While humans are more biologically prepared to learn taste aversions to foods that made them sick, birds are more likely to be sensitive to the _____ of tainted food.

While watching the movie Field of Dreams, Xandra become very emotional during the scene when the main character gets emotional after he asks his father to play catch. This empathetic response can be partially attributed to her _____ neurons.

_____ studied the development of taste aversions and stated that they could not be explained by the basic principles of classical conditioning.

Learning that is not immediately demonstrated in overt behavior is called _____ learning.