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The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is __________


A) Thorndike.
B) Wolpe.
C) Seligman.
D) Bandura.

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

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Which of the following statements is true regarding punishment?


A) The effect of punishment is often temporary.
B) Severe punishment creates fear and anger.
C) Punishment is the opposite of reinforcement.
D) All of these statements are true.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Continuous reinforcement results in a greater resistance to extinction than does partial reinforcement.

A) True
B) False

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A change in behavior that is relatively permanent and brought about by experience is commonly referred to by psychologists as acquisition behavior.

A) True
B) False

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Distinguish between the concepts of positive punishment and negative punishment.

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A behavioral psychologist tries to train a bird to climb a tree to get a reward of a piece of fruit. At first, the bird learns how to climb the tree with its legs and beak. After a while, it starts flapping its wings and hopping around before it starts to climb. Eventually, the bird flies up to the piece of fruit, even though that prevents it from getting the fruit. According to the Brelands' analysis of biological constraints, the bird is demonstrating __________


A) response generalization.
B) that it was reverting to behavior that was instinctual for it.
C) the power of negative reinforcement.
D) the law of effect.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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After extinguishing the salivating response in his dog, Pavlov allowed the dog to rest and then brought it back to the laboratory. At this point, Pavlov found that the dog would again salivate, although the response was weaker and shorter than before. Pavlov called this recurrence __________


A) discrimination.
B) spontaneous recovery.
C) generalization.
D) retrograde conditioning.

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

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John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the __________ in his study.


A) discriminative stimulus
B) counterconditioning stimulus
C) conditioned stimulus
D) unconditioned stimulus

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Which of the following is the best example of observational learning?


A) Greg hears on the radio that a huge storm is blowing in so he cancels his trip.
B) After several hours of staring at the computer screen, Marley suddenly realizes the solution to the puzzle he is trying to solve.
C) Carey figures out if she doesn't give her boss a hard time, he's a lot nicer to be around.
D) Ingrid swam poorly until she noticed the efficient stroke of the man in the next lane, now her swimming is greatly improved.

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

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In a classic experiment, Tolman exposed a group of rats to a maze for 11 days before he introduced a food reward. The rats outperformed rats that had been given daily food rewards. This demonstrates __________


A) latent learning.
B) classical conditioning.
C) operant conditioning.
D) observational learning.

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

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After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not __________ had occurred.


A) behavior modification
B) stimulus discrimination
C) extinction
D) stimulus generalization

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

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Which of the following statements pertaining to the conditioned response is accurate?


A) The conditioned response is elicited by the unconditioned stimulus.
B) The conditioned response is an instinctual behavior.
C) The conditioned response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.
D) The conditioned response is a reflex.

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

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Discuss the concept of observational learning as it applies to children and violent media, such as television, newspapers, movies, the internet and video games. Make sure to cite relevant findings covered in the textbook.

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According to Rescorla's theory, the CS must __________ the US or conditioning does not occur.


A) replace
B) come after
C) appear simultaneously with
D) predict

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

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A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of __________ to accomplish this.


A) observational learning
B) latent learning
C) instrumental conditioning
D) taste aversions

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

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Video games can currently be used to __________


A) enhance women's spatial cognitive skills.
B) train dogs to fetch.
C) instruct students in guitar techniques.
D) test your knowledge of psychological principles.

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

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Because dogs do not need to be conditioned to salivate to food, salivation to food is a(n) __________


A) conditioned response.
B) conditioned reflex.
C) unconditioned response.
D) neutral response.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Give an example of an unconditioned stimulus.

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You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. You sound the bell and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit. You do this several times but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because __________


A) the bell was not a distinctive sound.
B) the bell should have been sounded after the animal ate the biscuit.
C) you should have had an even longer interval between the bell and the biscuit.
D) the biscuit was given too long after the sound of the bell.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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In which type of conditioning is an association formed between one stimulus and another?


A) operant conditioning
B) clinical conditioning
C) observational conditioning
D) classical conditioning

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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